Books & the Arts

Interview With Steve Earle

Interview With Steve Earle Interview With Steve Earle

"Everybody thought everybody was fooling everybody. And both of us were probably right to a certain extent, everybody was fooling each of us."

Mar 19, 2015 / Books & the Arts / Eric Alterman

Cookie Don’t Crumble

Cookie Don’t Crumble Cookie Don’t Crumble

Fox’s Empire made TV-ratings history by letting a black woman be her multidimensional self. 

Mar 18, 2015 / Books & the Arts / Kristal Brent Zook

What Are ‘Nation’ Interns Reading the Week of 3/13/15?

What Are ‘Nation’ Interns Reading the Week of 3/13/15? What Are ‘Nation’ Interns Reading the Week of 3/13/15?

What Are ‘Nation’ Interns Reading the Week of 3/13/15?

Mar 13, 2015 / Books & the Arts / StudentNation

I’ve Got a Little List, Continued

I’ve Got a Little List, Continued I’ve Got a Little List, Continued

The best TV shows, albums and concerts: it's all inside today's Altercation.

Mar 12, 2015 / Books & the Arts / Eric Alterman

What Are ‘Nation’ Interns Reading the Week of 3/6/15?

What Are ‘Nation’ Interns Reading the Week of 3/6/15? What Are ‘Nation’ Interns Reading the Week of 3/6/15?

What Are ‘Nation’ Interns Reading the Week of 3/6/15?

Mar 6, 2015 / Books & the Arts / StudentNation

The Great Chastening

The Great Chastening The Great Chastening

For Francis Fukuyama and John Dunn, our democratic crisis is the result of an intellectual failure.

Mar 4, 2015 / Books & the Arts / Thomas Meaney

‘Insoumission’

‘Insoumission’ ‘Insoumission’

The categorical imperative “Do Not Draw the Prophet” clashes with the thousand nuances of art.

Mar 4, 2015 / Books & the Arts / Stéphane Delorme

Impossible Standards

Impossible Standards Impossible Standards

The poems and a new biography of James Laughlin tells of his public success as a publisher and his private disappointments.

Mar 4, 2015 / Books & the Arts / Adam Plunkett

What Are ‘Nation’ Interns Reading the Week of 2/27/15?

What Are ‘Nation’ Interns Reading the Week of 2/27/15? What Are ‘Nation’ Interns Reading the Week of 2/27/15?

What Are ‘Nation’ Interns Reading the Week of 2/27/15?

Feb 27, 2015 / Books & the Arts / StudentNation

Jean-Luc Godard and the End of Cinema

Jean-Luc Godard and the End of Cinema Jean-Luc Godard and the End of Cinema

The French director is still grappling with the collapsing culture of cinema while imagining its future incarnation.

Feb 25, 2015 / Books & the Arts / J. Hoberman

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