In Memoriam: Jonathan Schell (1943-2014) In Memoriam: Jonathan Schell (1943-2014)
Recollections from Tom Engelhardt and an interview with Schell.
Mar 31, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Tom Engelhardt and Christian Appy
Truman’s Folly? Truman’s Folly?
John Judis’s provocative history of US foreign policy toward Israel
Mar 26, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Bernard Avishai
From Visionary to the Fringe From Visionary to the Fringe
Immanuel Velikovsky’s strange quest for a scientific theory of everything
Mar 26, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Paula Findlen
Shelf Life: On Molly Antopol Shelf Life: On Molly Antopol
The short stories in The UnAmericans are studies of effusive remoteness and meandering revolution.
Mar 26, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Hannah Gold
Spy Agencies, Not Politicians, Hold the Cards in Washington Spy Agencies, Not Politicians, Hold the Cards in Washington
The CIA and NSA routinely ignore the Constitution, yet want the Justice Department to protect them from an over-reaching Congress.
Mar 24, 2014 / Books & the Arts / William Greider
This Week in ‘Nation’ History: The Fall and Rise of American Cities, Through Camilo José Vergara’s Lens This Week in ‘Nation’ History: The Fall and Rise of American Cities, Through Camilo José Vergara’s Lens
Vergara’s ambivalent feelings about gentrifying Harlem stem from a recognition of just how far the neighborhood had fallen in previous years.
Mar 22, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Katrina vanden Heuvel
A Captivating Mind A Captivating Mind
How Georgi Markov became the truth-teller of Bulgaria’s communist era, and paid for it with his life.
Mar 18, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Dimiter Kenarov
Shelf Life Shelf Life
Dave Eggers’s The Circle; Richard Powers’s Orfeo
Mar 18, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Aaron Thier
In Praise of the Utopian Political Imagination In Praise of the Utopian Political Imagination
Thomas Piketty’s ambitious, lucid Capital in the Twenty-First Century explains the depth and scope of our inequality problem.
Mar 14, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Kathleen Geier
Studio or Square? Studio or Square?
Art and revolution in Cairo.
Mar 11, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Jenna Krajeski