Turkey’s Transformation: On Islam, Nationalism and Modernity Turkey’s Transformation: On Islam, Nationalism and Modernity
Carter Vaughn Finley's timely new history contends that Turkey's development has been misunderstood as an upward march from Islamic empire to secular republic.
Mar 30, 2011 / Books & the Arts / Marc Edward Hoffman
Looking at Maps Looking at Maps
If they’d had writing in time, Cuba could have been Crete, watery source of the Minoans and thus the Greeks. What’s lost? A possible us growing like new foliage out of stony ground, emerging? Last voice, first, a whole world calling— awful, inaudible—into the unstoppable loud (roaring!) hurricane-force sea wind.
Mar 30, 2011 / Books & the Arts / Elizabeth Arnold
Readjustments: On ‘Win Win,’ ‘The Adjustment Bureau’ and ‘My Perestroika’ Readjustments: On ‘Win Win,’ ‘The Adjustment Bureau’ and ‘My Perestroika’
Is it a good thing that film—not the audiovisual materials that exist everywhere but movies, projected in public spaces— has stopped being central to American life?
Mar 30, 2011 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Naoto Kan and the End of ‘Japan Inc.’ Naoto Kan and the End of ‘Japan Inc.’
Criticism of the government’s response to the catastrophe has obscured major political changes.
Mar 30, 2011 / Books & the Arts / Tim Shorrock
Sounds and Sweet Airs: Introducing Lyric Nation Sounds and Sweet Airs: Introducing Lyric Nation
A new audio dossier features poets who have been published in The Nation reading selections of their work.
Mar 28, 2011 / Books & the Arts / John Palattella
Three Poems by Nathaniel Mackey Three Poems by Nathaniel Mackey
"Parlay Cheval Ou," excerpt from "Lone Coast Anacrusis," "Song of the Andoumboulou: 77"
Mar 28, 2011 / Books & the Arts / Nathaniel Mackey
Three Poems by Jennifer Moxley Three Poems by Jennifer Moxley
"The Logic of Survival," "On the Face of It," "The Quest"
Mar 28, 2011 / Books & the Arts / Jennifer Moxley
Five Poems by Peter Gizzi Five Poems by Peter Gizzi
"On What Became of Mathew Brady's Battle Photographs," "Lullaby," "Eclogues," "True Discourse on Power," "Oversong"
Mar 28, 2011 / Books & the Arts / Peter Gizzi
Elizabeth Taylor, Al Jazeera and the Raid on Entebbe Elizabeth Taylor, Al Jazeera and the Raid on Entebbe
How a Hollywood star offered herself in a hostage trade.
Mar 25, 2011 / Books & the Arts / Jon Wiener
‘If I Turn Traitor…’ ‘If I Turn Traitor…’
Eric Alterman reviews music and Reed Richardson parses the ethics of sports journalism.
Mar 25, 2011 / Books & the Arts / Eric Alterman