Books and Ideas

What Are They Reading? What Are They Reading?

John Steinbeck's forlorn protagonists, Lennie and George, summon few comparisons in today's landscape of mainstream literary fiction, overstocked with tales of redemption.

Mar 6, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Johnny Temple

Neo-Macho Man Neo-Macho Man

Say what you will about oil and hegemony, but the pending invasion of Iraq is more than just a geopolitical act. It's also the manifestation of a cultural attitude.

Mar 6, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Richard Goldstein

Storm Warnings for a Supply-Side War Storm Warnings for a Supply-Side War

There's nothing like a compelling icon when no compelling argument is available.

Mar 4, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Ian S. Lustick

Slumming Toward Academia Slumming Toward Academia

Only the joy of capitalist expectation could move a pre-Reagan-born American to utter the line "civil rights is dead," let alone write a book devoted to that proposition.

Feb 27, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Armond White

Biodiversity and You Biodiversity and You

As the Earth's population surges toward the 7 billion mark, the following twist on an old maxim perhaps best applies: A single birth is a joyous occasion. A billion births is a...

Feb 27, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Tatiana Siegel

The Crawford Conundrum The Crawford Conundrum

Say what you will about Michael Lind, at least he's never predictable. That is, of course, unless your prediction is that he's once again trying to find a way to disagree with ...

Feb 27, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Theodore Hamm

What’s a Neoliberal to Do? What’s a Neoliberal to Do?

In the 1960s it seemed as if the Third World was in flames, fueled by anti-imperialist struggles from Cuba to Vietnam, Bolivia to Algeria.

Feb 20, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Greg Grandin

Poets Against the War Poets Against the War

Here The Nation presents a few of the works posted on "Poets Against the War," (www.poetsagainstthewar.org), the website set up by Sam Hamill, poet and editor, when he ca...

Feb 19, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Alfred Corn, Sam Hamill, W.S. Merwin, Maxine Kumin, and Rita Dove

What Are They Reading? What Are They Reading?

Though there have been scattered signs of renewed interest in Dwight Macdonald--a biography in 1994, a collection of letters in 2002--all but a fraction of his own writing mold...

Feb 14, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Jonathan Shainin

Who’s in Charge? Who’s in Charge?

On October 4, 2001--less than a month after that horrific day--George W. Bush and the members of his National Security Council were nailing down the details of the coming war i...

Feb 13, 2003 / Books & the Arts / David Corn

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