Books and Ideas

After the Fall After the Fall

This article, from the November, 17 1984, issue of The Nation, is a special selection from The Nation Digital Archive. If you want to read everything The Nation has ever published ...

Nov 10, 2004 / The Editors

With Friends Like These With Friends Like These

Unlike communism and socialism, trade unionism has rarely inspired published "second thoughts" by embittered apostates.

Nov 4, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Steve Early

The Counter-Life The Counter-Life

Philip Roth is a miracle of modern medicine.

Nov 4, 2004 / Books & the Arts / James Wolcott

The Gods Must Be Crazy The Gods Must Be Crazy

"Our government makes no sense unless it is founded on a deeply felt religious faith--and I don't care what it is." Thus spoke the noted theologian Dwight Eisenhower on Flag Day ...

Oct 28, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Daniel Lazare

About Henry About Henry

Henry James is not a name that springs to mind when we think of adventure stories, prose epics or historical fiction.

Oct 14, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Brenda Wineapple

Learning to Love the Bomb Learning to Love the Bomb

While I saw Edward Teller at several scientific conferences and heard him lecture, I met him only once. It left an indelible memory. It was at the end of April 1954.

Oct 14, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Jeremy Bernstein

Dissent at 50 Dissent at 50

In the summer of 1953, the New School for Social Research hung a yellow curtain over a mural by the Mexican artist José Clemente Orozco. Orozco's transgression?

Oct 14, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Scott Sherman

Picking Up the Pieces Picking Up the Pieces

Brian Wilson began recording his masterpiece, Smile, in 1966; the project collapsed a year later, unfinished.

Oct 7, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Douglas Wolk

Office Politics Office Politics

As one of those pathetic evolutionary throwbacks who has never used e-mail or the Internet, and has hardly ever handled a mobile phone, I can approach this book with all the supr...

Oct 7, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Terry Eagleton

Rhythm Nation Rhythm Nation

Since Fidel Castro's brief fainting spell during a speech in June 2001, Miami, Havana and Washington have been caldrons of feverish speculation on his succession and the politics...

Oct 7, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Ann Louise Bardach

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