Culture

A Caller of the Dove A Caller of the Dove

In his poems, Mahmoud Darwish greeted even his own name warily, knowing it was something else he'd be forced to leave behind.

Apr 8, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Jordan Davis

Impossible to Ignore Wikileaks Tape Impossible to Ignore Wikileaks Tape

Martin Luther King's words in 1967 are still relevant to today's war, as the Wikileaks tape shows.

Apr 7, 2010 / Laura Flanders

Morning on the Island Morning on the Island

The lights across the water are the waking city. The water shimmers with imaginary fish. Not far from here lie the bones of conifers washed from the sea and piled by wind. Some mornings I walk upon them, bone to bone, as far as the lighthouse. A strange beetle has eaten most of the trees. It may have come here on the ships playing music in the harbor, or it was always here, a winged jewel, but in the past was kept still by the cold of a winter that no longer comes. There is an owl living in the firs behind us but he is white, meant to be mistaken for snow burdening a bough. They say he is the only owl remaining. I hear him at night listening for the last of the mice and asking who of no other owl.

Apr 5, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Carolyn Forché

A = A A = A

Mine to ask a mask to say, A is not A. No one, ever the contrarian, to answer. The moon is both divided & multiplied     by water: as chance, as the plural of chant. O diver, to be sea-surrounded by a thought bled white--     a blankness as likely as blackness. What is the word for getting words & forgetting? Might night right sight? I, too late to relate     I & I, trap light in sound & sing no thing that breath can bring.

Apr 5, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Andrew Joron

Reading on the Brain Reading on the Brain

In the history of reading, does progress hinge on the weird, obsolete or eccentric among us?

Apr 5, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Ange Mlinko

Labor to Lincoln: You’re Not Obama’s BFF Labor to Lincoln: You’re Not Obama’s BFF

 Organized labor takes on Arkansas Senator Blanche Lincoln in a pair of new ads.

Apr 5, 2010 / Ari Berman

One From the Heart One From the Heart

The superficial sincerity of Noah Baumbach's Greenberg is not to be trusted.

Mar 31, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans

On Right-Wing Apoplexy On Right-Wing Apoplexy

What caused this healthcare fit?

Mar 31, 2010 / Column / Calvin Trillin

A Conscious Pariah A Conscious Pariah

Raul Hilberg, the first historian to document the banality of Nazi evil, nursed a lifelong grudge against the woman who borrowed from and popularized his work, Hannah Arendt.

Mar 31, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Nathaniel Popper

India Grapples with Freedom India Grapples with Freedom

This essay, from the August 23, 1947, 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 I...

Mar 30, 2010 / Feature / Shiva Rao

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