Books and Ideas

The Blue Laws The Blue Laws

My mother, a brunette, hurried in her cloth coat through postwar Sundays, which fell

Sep 4, 2003 / Books & the Arts / William Logan

Liberal Pieties Liberal Pieties

CORRECTION: The Fisher family of Six Feet Under is Episcopalian, not Catholic. (10/1)

Sep 4, 2003 / Books & the Arts / JoAnn Wypijewski

Our Families, Ourselves Our Families, Ourselves

Eyal Press is working on a book about the abortion wars in Buffalo, New York.

Sep 4, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Eyal Press

An Empire of Their Own An Empire of Their Own

"I have never had such a bad feeling about a war ever before," wrote Sha Twa Nee on the Prophecy Club message board in April.

Sep 4, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Melani McAlister

The Life of the Party The Life of the Party

Interesting Times is a curiously feeble title for an autobiography, rather as if Noam Chomsky were to write an article called "Could America Do Better?" It carries, of co...

Aug 28, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Terry Eagleton

The Mess in Mesopotamia The Mess in Mesopotamia

If you want to read everything The Nation has ever published on Iraq, click here for information on how to acquire individual access to the Archive--an electronic database of every...

Aug 14, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Andrew Cockburn

Thieves Like Us Thieves Like Us

In March 2001 a small Internet website in Delhi, tehelka.com, revealed that two of its reporters had used a secret camera to tape senior defense officials and political leaders...

Jul 31, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Amitava Kumar

Soul Man Soul Man

Pop music's eternal appeal can be found in one instance out of many: "This Magic Moment," a 1960 song by The Drifters.

Jul 31, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Armond White

Operation Iranian Freedom Operation Iranian Freedom

Click here to read Iran's New Strong Man by Andrew Roth from the September 5, 1953 issue of The Nation.

Jul 31, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Tariq Ali

What Are They Reading? What Are They Reading?

I've been bashfully mute amidst the chatter over Norman Rush's new novel, Mortals, because he wasn't on the modest list of Writers I Know About.

Jul 21, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Timothy Bradley

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