In Our Orbit In Our Orbit
In 1990, The Nation ran a dispatch from Portland, Oregon, by editorial board member Elinor Langer titled "The American Neo-Nazi Movement Today." The piece, which took up almost...
Oct 2, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Emily Biuso
London Kills Me London Kills Me
Monica Ali was recently named one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists--an A-list of red-hot literary youth writing some of the most promising books on the contemporary ...
Oct 2, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Diana Abu-Jaber
Death and Glory Death and Glory
The premature deaths in the past year of Warren Zevon, Johnny Cash and Joe Strummer ought to be enough to make the most pious among us angry at The Man Upstairs.
Oct 2, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Eric Alterman
Ancestors Ancestors
They are bicycling into the sun. He has a dhoti on under his coat and a briefcase with LYRIC marked in big letters.
Sep 25, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Meena Alexander
French Connections French Connections
The setting is a one-room schoolhouse, which is momentarily unoccupied except for a pair of turtles.
Sep 25, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Savage Modernism Savage Modernism
A refugee from Nazism and a distinguished New York psychoanalyst, Sandor Rado had thought long and deeply about Hitler's takeover of Germany. Years ago, the writer Otto Friedri...
Sep 25, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Russell Jacoby
The Gray Zone The Gray Zone
On a hot, dusty summer day in 1998, I drove with friends from Smolensk to the village of Zagor'e to meet Ivan Tvardovsky, a survivor of Stalin's forced-labor camps and the brot...
Sep 25, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Lynne Viola
A Kinder, Gentler Fundamentalism A Kinder, Gentler Fundamentalism
In his 1998 book, One Nation, After All, Alan Wolfe chided liberals for their misapprehensions about the political attitudes of ordinary Americans.
Sep 18, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Michael Massing
Shooting Wars Shooting Wars
In her new book, Regarding the Pain of Others, Susan Sontag's focus is upon theaters of war and the way in which photographers have interpreted their role in the production of ...
Sep 18, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Peter Wollen
She’s Gotta Have It She’s Gotta Have It
In his 1997 song "Highlands," Bob Dylan reports a conversation between himself and a waitress. "She says, You don't read women authors, do you?/...
Sep 18, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Claire Dederer