Nation Readers’ Summer Books Nation Readers’ Summer Books
An eclectic summer reading list drawn from the suggestions of Nation readers.
Jul 26, 2010 / Books & the Arts / The Nation
A Question on the Economic Recovery A Question on the Economic Recovery
Just wait your turn.
Jul 15, 2010 / Column / Calvin Trillin
The Trouble With Amazon The Trouble With Amazon
It's big, cheap and convenient. But does the online bookseller really serve readers' interests?
Jul 15, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Colin Robinson
From Black to Black From Black to Black
Traveling along the Danube into the heart of the new Europe.
Jul 14, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Dimiter Kenarov
Indivisible Indivisible
The unit of measure united in the particulars inevitably leads to divisions; part of medium is to be indivisible, so divines the medium. He says, "I am neutral. I am neutrino & pass through objects to stay objective. I limit myself to experiments involving infinity—that is, unlimited license to be licentious: does it matter to murder matter? And is it murder to dissect what matters—how will I discover what is murder or what is matter? As a matter of fact, the uptilt creates a steep plane interrupting the plain, a stratum revealed as part of many strata united and thus dividable. As a stratospheric shower, particles aggregate into one granite unit. Is wave action just another wave to that which is indivisible?"
Jul 14, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Marcella Durand
Shelf Life Shelf Life
The Letters of Sylvia Beach; Günter Eich's Angina Days: Selected Poems
Jul 14, 2010 / Books & the Arts / John Palattella
Restless Confederates Restless Confederates
Two new books argue that the South's slaveholding republic faced a crisis of legitimacy from the outset.
Jul 14, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Eric Foner
A Forest of Fathers A Forest of Fathers
Did liberal principles or sectarian impulses mobilize Lebanon's "Cedar Revolution" to protest against the Syrian regime?
Jul 14, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Elias Muhanna
Back Talk: Karen Cooper Back Talk: Karen Cooper
The director of Film Forum reflects on forty years of programming new releases, The Solitude of Prime Numbers and the rewards of being an autodidact.
Jul 14, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Christine Smallwood
Rebuild and Read: Books for a Post-Katrina Middle School Rebuild and Read: Books for a Post-Katrina Middle School
You can help the rebuilding and spread the love of reading.
Jul 8, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Katha Pollitt