Note to ESPN’s Jemele Hill: Tim Tebow is not Muhammad Ali Note to ESPN’s Jemele Hill: Tim Tebow is not Muhammad Ali
First let me put my cards on the table. I consider Jemele Hill, sports columnist for ESPN.com to be as incisive and interesting as they come. She has been a frequent and fearless g...
Feb 3, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Dave Zirin
Remembering Howard Zinn Remembering Howard Zinn
Friends of The Nation and of Howard Zinn offer recollections of the man, his work, and his impact on thinkers and activists.
Feb 1, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Various Contributors
Say No to CBS’s Anti-Choice Super Bowl Ad Say No to CBS’s Anti-Choice Super Bowl Ad
The broadcast networks that air the Super Bowl have historically rejected advocacy ads. Yet CBS, which is airing the Super Bowl this year, has accepted an anti-choice ad by the ult...
Jan 31, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Dave Zirin
Slacker Thursday Slacker Thursday
In these past weeks, we've lost J.D. Salinger, Howard Zinn, Louis Auchincloss, Robert Parker and Kate McGarrigle, Eric Rohmer, all of whom meant a great deal to me at one point o...
Jan 28, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Eric Alterman
Back Talk: Terry Castle Back Talk: Terry Castle
A conversation with the author of The Professor about her affair with an older woman and the journals of Susan Sontag.
Jan 28, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Christine Smallwood
Under Siege: On Emma Williams Under Siege: On Emma Williams
A poignant memoir about life in the occupied territories during the second intifada.
Jan 28, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Charles Glass
Shelf Life Shelf Life
Joseph Stiglitz's Freefall, Mark Weiss's The Whole Island and Robert Darnton's The Case for Books.
Jan 28, 2010 / Books & the Arts / John Palattella
Ghostly Demarcations: On Ramon Fernandez Ghostly Demarcations: On Ramon Fernandez
The novelist Dominique Fernandez struggles to understand his father's years as a Nazi collaborator.
Jan 28, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Alice Kaplan
Telling It Slant: On J.M. Coetzee Telling It Slant: On J.M. Coetzee
J.M. Coetzee's Summertime and the fictions of self-deception.
Jan 28, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Joanna Scott
Howard Zinn: The Historian Who Made History Howard Zinn: The Historian Who Made History
Howard Zinn, who died in 2010 at the age of 87, did nothing less than rewrite the narrative of the United States.
Jan 28, 2010 / Dave Zirin