![Self-help section at a bookstore.](https://www.thenation.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/self-help_shelf.jpg)
A Close Reading of Luigi Mangione’s Self-Help Library A Close Reading of Luigi Mangione’s Self-Help Library
A look at the UnitedHealthcare CEO shooter’s social media accounts points to what Americans are inclined to turn to when their government fails to give them sufficient options.
Dec 19, 2024 / Maya Vinokour
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A Dance to Jules Feiffer at 95 A Dance to Jules Feiffer at 95
Cartoonist and writer Jules Feiffer is a national treasure. To mark his 95th birthday, we had some questions for the longtime Nation contributor.
Dec 19, 2024 / Feature / Peter Kuper
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The Empty Thrills of Alfonso Cuarón’s “Disclaimer” The Empty Thrills of Alfonso Cuarón’s “Disclaimer”
Why did the great Mexican filmmaker make a soapy thriller?
Dec 19, 2024 / Books & the Arts / Jorge Cotte
![Men imprisoned at the Mafanta Prison peer out at the world. In 2016, Sierra Leone’s Human Rights Commission decried the squalor and lack of rehabilitative programs as “inhumane.”](https://www.thenation.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Kardas-Nelson-Mafanta-ftr-getty.jpg)
The Legacy of the British Legal System Continues to Inflict Misery in Sierra Leone The Legacy of the British Legal System Continues to Inflict Misery in Sierra Leone
Decades after independence, colonial-era laws have created a mass-incarceration crisis in Sierra Leone as poor citizens are thrown into prison for the smallest offenses.
Dec 19, 2024 / Feature / Mara Kardas-Nelson
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Auctioning Off Judaism’s Past Auctioning Off Judaism’s Past
As the collections of Sir Moses Montefiore and David Solomon Sassoon go under the hammer today, what's the future for rare books and historic artifacts in the age of generative AI...
Dec 18, 2024 / David Brodsky
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The Brutalist and the Hidden Work of Architecture "The Brutalist" and the Hidden Work of Architecture
A film about survival, creativity, the hypocrisies of high art, The Brutalist tells a story about an architect who does not exploit and manipulate others to achieve his grand visi...
Dec 18, 2024 / Books & the Arts / Kate Wagner
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David Montgomery and the Vitality of Labor History David Montgomery and the Vitality of Labor History
From his first book to his landmark account of the politics of the pre-WWI labor movement, Montgomery explored how people’s experiences of work shaped their political horizons.
Dec 17, 2024 / Books & the Arts / Kim Phillips-Fein
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The Illusory Beauty of “Nickel Boys” The Illusory Beauty of “Nickel Boys”
An avant-garde adaptation of Colson Whitehead's Pulitzer Prize–winning novel careens between questions of style and substance.
Dec 17, 2024 / Books & the Arts / Stephen Kearse