The Generation That Failed The Generation That Failed
Yugoslavs were unprepared for the surge of nationalism that followed Tito's communist rule.
Oct 28, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Slavenka Drakulic
Gorbachev on 1989 Gorbachev on 1989
A wide-ranging Nation interview with the former Soviet president.
Oct 28, 2009 / Q&A / Katrina vanden Heuvel and Stephen F. Cohen
Identity Theft Identity Theft
If you're a down draft, I'm an escaped photograph. When you're a full moon, children disappear from home. For every nickel you turn in your fingers a bottle fly Files its nails. When you see your face reflected, it Sees you as you once were when you were elsewhere. When flocks fly for you, you let them scatter your neurons. When you were a tin can I shot you many times over. If you're a beggar, I'm turning a corner to face you. Were you a hatband, were I grosgrain ribbon, would I invite you to move into my neighborhood forest. When you're a fox, I'm a fox, we're thinking of stealing something. You are that tired old porch light someone's left burning. I'm a shy green moth short on memory and handcuffs. Silver lines you drew me through have cost me my life.
Oct 28, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Dara Wier
‘U.S. Will Order Pay Cuts at Firms With Bailout Aid’ ‘U.S. Will Order Pay Cuts at Firms With Bailout Aid’
The Wall Street types consider this unfair--they say they earned their money fair and square.
Oct 28, 2009 / Column / Calvin Trillin
The Down Side of Thinking Positive The Down Side of Thinking Positive
Nation contributor Barbara Ehrenreich presents Bright Sided, her new book about the negative aspect of positive thinking.
Oct 23, 2009 / Books & the Arts / GRITtv
Cliff’s False Notes Cliff’s False Notes
Who was to blame for Clifford Irving's fake Howard Hughes autobiography? Irving, for sure, but don't forget the publishing industry.
Oct 22, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Charles Lam Markmann
British-Style Fakery British-Style Fakery
Thomas Chatterton was the balloon boy of eighteenth-century British literary circles.
Oct 22, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Horace Gregory
At Least, At Most: The Novels of Don Carpenter At Least, At Most: The Novels of Don Carpenter
With his plain, weather-beaten prose, Don Carpenter was a good enough novelist not to have to prove it.
Oct 21, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Charles Taylor
A City Unbottled: Mary Beard’s Pompeii A City Unbottled: Mary Beard’s Pompeii
In The Fires of Vesuvius, Mary Beard unearths the seedier realities of the Roman social and political experience.
Oct 21, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Joy Connolly
A Makeshift World: On Thomas Demand A Makeshift World: On Thomas Demand
For the photographer Thomas Demand, Germany is like any other country because it is haunted by history.
Oct 21, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Barry Schwabsky