Reality Check–Virtual, of Course Reality Check–Virtual, of Course
A perplexing disconnect from reality haunts the American financial community.
Aug 19, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Larry Hedrick
Saving History From the Shredder Saving History From the Shredder
They call him "the world's most famous bank guard": Christoph Meili, the former night watchman at the Union Bank of Switzerland in Zurich who in 1997 rescued from the shredder do...
Aug 19, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Jon Wiener
Have We Reason to Believe? Have We Reason to Believe?
Scratch a philosopher, find a reductionist revolutionary.
Aug 5, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Carlin Romano
Old Masters Old Masters
For contemporary reactions from Nation critics to the films of Stanley Kubrick, follow these links: Lolita (1962), Dr. Strangelove (1964), 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), The Shining...
Jul 22, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Ex-Prom Queen Goes Home Ex-Prom Queen Goes Home
Thomas Wolfe wrote that you can't go home again. Alix Kates Shulman disagrees.
Jul 22, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Beverly Gologorsky
Poetry’s Ball Turret Gunner Poetry’s Ball Turret Gunner
Has anyone read John Dennis? Irving Babbitt? Gorham Munson? Probably not, though they were considered important critics in their day.
Jul 22, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Alfred Corn
Hitler’s Viennese Waltz Hitler’s Viennese Waltz
"Austria had many geniuses, and that was probably its undoing."
--Robert Musil
Jul 22, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Paul Reitter
Still Not Over Over There? Still Not Over Over There?
The estimates of the number of books written about World War I are in the hundreds of thousands.
Jul 22, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Hans Koning
Doctors’ Brains Doctors’ Brains
It's 9:45 Tuesday night, and the house lights have just come on after the final scene of Wit--the surprise Off Broadway hit about a terminally ill English professor and her exper...
Jul 8, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Suzanne Gordon
Spy or Savior? Spy or Savior?
If Russia is not to dissolve like the Soviet Union or, worse yet, end in a cataclysm like Yugoslavia's, it must negotiate peacefully across a welter of emotional claims to self-det...
Jul 8, 1999 / Books & the Arts / George Kenney