Culture

Vintage illustration of a couple in bed adjusting their futuristic home automation system; screen print, 1955.

The Crisis in the Care Economy The Crisis in the Care Economy

How was care commodified? And what has that meant for an undervalued but increasingly important workforce.

Oct 16, 2024 / Books & the Arts / Maia Silber

Honor Native American Peoples, Every Day

Honor Native American Peoples, Every Day Honor Native American Peoples, Every Day

Indigenous Peoples' Day is commemorated on the second Monday in October in many parts of the United States.

Oct 15, 2024 / OppArt / Andrea Arroyo

Nation Poetry

FIGURE EIGHT FIGURE EIGHT

Oct 14, 2024 / Poems / Daniel Moysaenko

German Jewish refugees looking through portholes aboard an ocean liner arriving in Antwerp, 1939.

What the Jewish History of Exile Means Now What the Jewish History of Exile Means Now

A recent book on Jewish identity before and after Zionism shows the limitations of a progressive critique that doesn't truly account for the experience of Palestinians.

Oct 14, 2024 / Books & the Arts / Eli Rudavsky

Anna Nordlander, “Sami Woman and her Child” (1870s).

A Swedish Poet Comes Face to Face With the Epic A Swedish Poet Comes Face to Face With the Epic

Sámi writer Linnea Axelsson’s AEdnan uses the ancient form to critique Sweden’s historical mistreatment of its indigenous people.

Oct 10, 2024 / Books & the Arts / Rebecca Ariel Porte

Alba de Céspedes’s Marriage Plot Polemic

Alba de Céspedes’s Marriage Plot Polemic Alba de Céspedes’s Marriage Plot Polemic

In the Cuban-Italian novelist’s Her Side of the Story, she confronts the falsity of romantic love.

Oct 9, 2024 / Books & the Arts / Rachel Vorona Cote

A photograph of Sylvia Plath on her grave at St Thomas A. Beckett churchyard, Heptonstall, West Yorkshire, 2011.

The Silencing of Sylvia Plath The Silencing of Sylvia Plath

In Emily Van Duyne’s Loving Sylvia Plath she asks if we can fully understand the poet’s work without understanding her abusive marriage to Ted Hughes.

Oct 8, 2024 / Books & the Arts / Lynne Feeley

Nation Poetry

Payee Payee

Oct 7, 2024 / Poems / Jessica Abughattas

Adam Driver as Cesar Catilina and Laurence Fishburne as Fundi Romaine in “Megalopolis”.

The Empty Promise of “Megalopolis” The Empty Promise of “Megalopolis”

Francis Ford Coppola’s long-awaited magnum opus is a flop.

Oct 7, 2024 / Books & the Arts / Stephen Kearse

American Ballet Theatre Corps de Ballet dancers perform during a dress rehearsal.

Ballet Dancers’ Next Move: Union Organizing Ballet Dancers’ Next Move: Union Organizing

Contract negotiations have brought higher pensions, mandated rest times, and increased wages for a job that requires intense schedules and years of training.

Oct 4, 2024 / StudentNation / Lucy Tobier

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