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Non-fiction
Non-fiction news and analysis from The Nation
June 1, 2018
He was blithely unaware of how his journalistic cutting edge sliced one family into ribbons—mine.
May 28, 2018
An effort to determine whether common ground can, or should, be found between factions of the left and right against liberalism.
May 16, 2018
He exploded on the scene like a New Journalism comet and kept himself aloft by superior, mostly tasteful self-promotion, hard work, and good journalism.
April 12, 2018
Scientology’s unique manipulations of language seduced the novelist Sands Hall and kept her bound to the church.
March 29, 2018
Two new books examine the austerity policies and administrative overreach behind the expansion of local law enforcement.
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March 7, 2018
The genre that Pinker’s latest book most closely resembles is not 18th-century philosophie but a TED Talk.
February 7, 2018
Unions have struggled to make substantial gains since the ’70s, but not for the reasons historians think.
February 1, 2018
How Hitler and the Nazis came to power.
January 11, 2018
In two new novels and a recent collection of essays, the English environmentalist and activist captures a country coming apart.
January 10, 2018
It’s not the kids these days that we need to worry about, but the world their parents helped build.
