Diamond-Dust Baroque Diamond-Dust Baroque
The Get Down, Baz Luhrman’s fairy-tale remix of the birth of hip hop, offers a glimpse of the beginning of the end of US power.
Sep 15, 2016 / Joshua Clover
John Berger: The Human, the Artist John Berger: The Human, the Artist
In The Seasons in Quincy, we learn little about the former and attempts to celebrate the latter collapse into the elegiac.
Sep 12, 2016 / Anakwa Dwamena
Antoine Volodine’s Army of Avatars Antoine Volodine’s Army of Avatars
Is there any other writer whose work is as strange and hermetic and gloriously, painfully appropriate to the unparalleled shittiness of our times?
Sep 7, 2016 / Books & the Arts / Ben Ehrenreich
Notes From Many Years Notes From Many Years
Helen Gurley Brown’s ideas about women were often as retrograde as the ones she claimed to fight. Why is she still appealing?
Sep 1, 2016 / Books & the Arts / Madeleine Schwartz
Love in a Time of Capital: An Interview With Moira Weigel Love in a Time of Capital: An Interview With Moira Weigel
The author of a new history of dating talks with Nation advice columnist Liza Featherstone.
Aug 29, 2016 / Q&A / Liza Featherstone
A Tale of Two Pictures A Tale of Two Pictures
Black Lives Matter resists definition and is full of contradictions, but that’s where its power lies.
Aug 8, 2016 / Joshua Clover
Why White People Need to Talk About Racism Too Why White People Need to Talk About Racism Too
I’ve inadvertently ended many a conversation by bringing up the issue of race.
Aug 4, 2016 / StudentNation / Zachary R. Wood
An Hour Without Trump An Hour Without Trump
Susan Faludi on her trans father, Edward Snowden’s lawyer on the NSA, and Tom Lutz on politics and travel.
Aug 4, 2016 / Podcast / Start Making Sense and Jon Wiener
Where Is the New Cyberfeminism? Where Is the New Cyberfeminism?
Virtual reality remains stuck in age-old ideas about women and their bodies.
Jul 28, 2016 / Books & the Arts / Cecilia D’Anastasio
The Depressing Truth About How Sexism Changes Us The Depressing Truth About How Sexism Changes Us
In Sex Object, Jessica Valenti asks “Who would I be if I didn’t live in a world that hated women?”
Jun 24, 2016 / Lauren Duca