Viewing Conditions: On Jonathan Rosenbaum Viewing Conditions: On Jonathan Rosenbaum
For Jonathan Rosenbaum, the golden age of filmgoing is as dead as the drive-in, but cinephilia is thriving.
Feb 3, 2011 / Books & the Arts / Akiva Gottlieb
Things as They Are Things as They Are
Lee Chang-dong's Poetry, Jorge Michel Grau's We Are What We Are, Ron Howard's The Dilemma
Feb 3, 2011 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Dan Bell, RIP Dan Bell, RIP
On the late Daniel Bell, the very archetype of a committed liberal intellectual, and The New Republic's Marty Peretz, plus reader mail.
Jan 27, 2011 / Books & the Arts / Eric Alterman
The Return of the Culture Wars The Return of the Culture Wars
As before, hypocrites are lining their coffers by pandering to ignorance and xenophobia.
Jan 27, 2011 / Books & the Arts / Doug Harvey
The Ballad of John and J.D.: On John Lennon and J.D. Salinger The Ballad of John and J.D.: On John Lennon and J.D. Salinger
Mark David Chapman was carrying a copy of The Catcher in the Rye when he shot John Lennon. The murder was a collision of cultures.
Jan 27, 2011 / Books & the Arts / Charles Taylor
Languaging Languaging
Can a second language provide us with a new self?
Jan 21, 2011 / Books & the Arts / Ange Mlinko
Slacker Friday Slacker Friday
Eric Alterman rounds up the best of New York, confronts Reagan's Alzheimer's and reader mail.
Jan 21, 2011 / Books & the Arts / Eric Alterman
This Week at TheNation.com: Hope in 2011. Plus: A New Nation Fellow This Week at TheNation.com: Hope in 2011. Plus: A New Nation Fellow
Hope in 2011. Plus: The Nation Institute welcomes a new fellow.
Jan 7, 2011 / Books & the Arts / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Slide Show: A Secret Archive: Images From the Mexican Suitcase Slide Show: A Secret Archive: Images From the Mexican Suitcase
In the spring of 1942, three years after the fall of Spain to Franco’s Nationalists, a suitcase containing an archive of 4,500 negatives of photographs of the Spanish Civil W…
Jan 6, 2011 / Books & the Arts / The Nation
A Secret Archive: On the Mexican Suitcase A Secret Archive: On the Mexican Suitcase
The 4,500 images in the recently discovered Mexican Suitcase deepen our understanding of photojournalism as well as the complexities of the Spanish Civil War.
Jan 5, 2011 / Books & the Arts / Dan Kaufman