La Japonaise La Japonaise
With each last reverberation from the world of 1960s and '70s radicalism--the recent parole of Kathy Boudin, for example, a member of the Weather Underground who served twenty-...
Oct 9, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Jennifer Egan
The Man Without Qualities The Man Without Qualities
The hero of The Namesake is an American of Bengali parentage named Gogol Ganguli.
Oct 9, 2003 / Books & the Arts / David Bromwich
Local Color Local Color
A review of Fortress of Solitude, by Jonathan Lethem.
Oct 9, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Melanie Rehak
Our Victorian Ancestors Our Victorian Ancestors
"You are the heirs of one of the country's great traditions, the Progressive movement that started late in the nineteenth century and remade the American experience piece by pi...
Oct 2, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Michael Kazin
Justice Talking Justice Talking
In his memoir, Taking Liberties, Aryeh Neier emerges, almost despite himself, as a fascinating man.
Oct 2, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Scott L. Malcomson
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
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