Skeletons in the Closet Skeletons in the Closet
Editor's Note: Due to an unfortunate glitch in production, two lines are missing from the printed version of Daniel Lazare's essay. They have been restored in this version.
Dec 18, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Daniel Lazare
Running on Empty Running on Empty
If ever there was an event that called for reflection on what was left of the New Left, it was the 1981 Brink's robbery.
Dec 18, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Carol Brightman
Go East, Young Man! Go East, Young Man!
In one of his sunnier moods, Jean-Luc Godard might have tacked onto The Last Samurai the subtitle une étrange aventure de Tom Cruise.
Dec 11, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Scully’s Way Scully’s Way
Generations of Yale students share stories about special moments in Vincent Scully's courses on art and architecture.
Dec 11, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Thomas Bender
Weapons of the Weak Weapons of the Weak
African-American history, broadly defined, continues to be the most innovative and exciting field in American historical studies.
Dec 11, 2003 / Books & the Arts / George M. Fredrickson
The Abstract Impressionist The Abstract Impressionist
I have always marveled at the way in which Abstract Expressionism was able to transform a disparate group of painters, none of whom had shown any particular promise of artistic g...
Dec 11, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Arthur C. Danto
Why I Said No to Joe Why I Said No to Joe
This essay, from the September 26, 1953, issue of The Nation, is a special selection from The Nation Digital Archive. If you want to read everything The Nation has ever published, ...
Dec 4, 2003 / Feature / Harvey O’Connor
Occupational Hazards Occupational Hazards
One of the greatest paradoxes of the modern era is the relationship between science and rationalism.
Dec 4, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Omer Bartov
A Poet of Multitudes A Poet of Multitudes
Pablo Neruda is often compared to Walt Whitman. In fact, the Chilean poet and Nobel Prize winner outdid Whitman in some respects.
Dec 4, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Jay Parini
Gray’s Anatomy Gray’s Anatomy
We live, it has been said, in a postideological age. Ideologically confused might be more like it.
Dec 4, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Danny Postel