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
Studio or Square? Studio or Square?
Art and revolution in Cairo.
Mar 11, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Jenna Krajeski
Missing Pictures Missing Pictures
Wes Anderson’s The Grand Budapest Hotel, Jiri Menzel’s I Served the King of England, Rithy Panh’s The Missing Picture
Mar 11, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Shelf Life: Hal Hartley’s Unbelievable Truths Shelf Life: Hal Hartley’s Unbelievable Truths
The Unbelievable Truth, Trust, The Book of Life, The Girl from Monday and Meanwhile
Mar 11, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Akiva Gottlieb
This Week in ‘Nation’ History: Resisting The Beatles’ Invasion, ‘The PR Man’s Finest Hour’ This Week in ‘Nation’ History: Resisting The Beatles’ Invasion, ‘The PR Man’s Finest Hour’
The quivering throngs of teen-aged girls, The Nation’s reviewer wrote, said much more about the susceptibility of Americans to fashionable trends than it did about the talent...
Mar 8, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Dread and Wonder Dread and Wonder
The unflinching fiction of Ludmilla Petrushevskaya.
Mar 5, 2014 / Books & the Arts / William Deresiewicz
I, Diet I, Diet
out of this world & out of time & out of love & out of mind & out of the pan & out of butter, out of anger & out of mother, out of the cradle & out of pocket, out of space & out of cash & out of change & out of sight & out of range & force of habit & out of oil & out of whack & out of water & Damascus, out of courtesy & out of shock & out of duty & out of turn & out of tune & out of line & out of the ground & out of his gourd & out of all the possible solutions, out of the ashes & conviction
Mar 5, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Anna Maria Hong