What Are They Reading? What Are They Reading?
I'd like to say that I came across the poet Agha Shahid Ali of my own accord, browsing through the shelves of a bookshop or library and taking immediately to his finely structure...
Sep 8, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Priyanka Motaparthy
When H.G. Wells Split the Atom When H.G. Wells Split the Atom
This essay, from the August 18, 1945, issue of The Nation, is a special selection from The Nation Digital Archive. If you want to read everything The Nation has ever published on n...
Sep 4, 2003 / Feature / Freda Kirchwey
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