The Bondage Club The Bondage Club
In the morning we put on our sharp blue suits and go to hear the delegates speak through broken teeth. These are the women whose names the press must be
Dec 7, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Eleanor Lerman
That Sure Is My Little Dog That Sure Is My Little Dog
Yes, indeed, that is my house that I am carrying around on my back like a bullet-proof shell and yes, that sure is my little dog walking a hard road in hard boots. And
Dec 7, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Eleanor Lerman
2006 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize: Eleanor Lerman 2006 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize: Eleanor Lerman
Eleanor Lerman's poems sing a song that is bravely gloomy, but they sing it with a fierce and earned dignity.
Dec 7, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Tony Hoagland
Uncle Tom’s Shadow Uncle Tom’s Shadow
The Annotated Uncle Tom's Cabin explores one of the most influential novels in American history.
Dec 7, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Darryl Lorenzo Wellington
The Plot Against Equality The Plot Against Equality
Walter Benn Michaels's The Trouble With Diversity challenges us to remove our race-tinted glasses and view the world in the class-based terms that, he argues, define it.
Dec 7, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Robert S. Boynton
Free-Trade Bondage in Jordan Free-Trade Bondage in Jordan
The Jordan-US free-trade agreement was supposed to be a labor-rights model. It's been a disaster.
Dec 7, 2006 / Feature / Kristen Gillespie
Point, No Counterpoint: The Conservative Beat Point, No Counterpoint: The Conservative Beat
The New York Times editors do a service by covering right-wingers: It would make sense to similarly cover progressives. Why don't they?
Dec 7, 2006 / Column / Eric Alterman
On the Iraq Memo Donald Rumsfeld Wrote as He Was About to Be Fired On the Iraq Memo Donald Rumsfeld Wrote as He Was About to Be Fired
Goodness, gracious! He was right all along.
Dec 7, 2006 / Column / Calvin Trillin
Nation Note Nation Note
After a memorable thirty-five years, Grace Schulman steps down as Nation poetry editor.
Dec 7, 2006 / The Editors
Brady Kiesling’s Tale Brady Kiesling’s Tale
A disenchanted diplomat who lost faith in the Bush-era State Department and resigned over the war in Iraq remains idealistic.
Dec 7, 2006 / Scott Sherman