Culture

Creatures of the Night: On Park Chan-wook and the Dardennes Creatures of the Night: On Park Chan-wook and the Dardennes

Park Chan-wook's Thirst, Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne's Lorna's Silence and Lucrecia Martel's The Headless Woman.

Aug 12, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans

La Despedida: A Lost Memoir of the Spanish Civil War La Despedida: A Lost Memoir of the Spanish Civil War

A long-lost memoir of the Spanish Civil War moves jaggedly between boredom, fleeting triumphs and terror.

Aug 12, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Dan Kaufman

In the Theater of Isak Dinesen In the Theater of Isak Dinesen

A reconsideration of the fictive truths behind a storyteller's many masks.

Aug 12, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Joanna Scott

Where Were the Birthers Born? Where Were the Birthers Born?

...And on what planet?

Aug 12, 2009 / Column / Calvin Trillin

Bill Douglas Bill Douglas

Sidney Zion celebrates the courage and independence of the late Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas

Aug 12, 2009 / Sidney Zion

How He Got That Story How He Got That Story

The maverick opinions of a a maverick reporter.

Aug 12, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

King Cohn King Cohn

Roy Cohn was one of the most loathsome characters in American history, so why did he have so many influential friends?

Aug 12, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Robert Sherrill

Fixer: The Taking of Ajmal Naqshbandi Fixer: The Taking of Ajmal Naqshbandi

Nation contributor Christian Parenti describes the relationship between a fixer and a Western reporter in a haunting documentary about the kidnapping of his fixer in Afghanistan.

Aug 11, 2009 / Books & the Arts / The Nation Video

Whom do you Write your Poems for? Whom do you Write your Poems for?

It's easy to describe the readers I have in mind when I write my column in The Nation: the 185,000 Nation subscribers, who are mostly liberals, progressives and leftists of vari...

Aug 7, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Katha Pollitt

Hiroshima Day Hiroshima Day

The official secrecy and deceptions about our nuclear weapons posture and policies and their possible consequences have threatened the survival of the human species.

Aug 6, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Daniel Ellsberg

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