An Ongoing Dream An Ongoing Dream
Recurring in almost all of Amit Chaudhuri’s is a stubborn urge: a wish to continue seeing and discovering things as a child.
Jun 9, 2016 / Books & the Arts / Abhrajyoti Chakraborty
Captain America: Without a Country, Again Captain America: Without a Country, Again
Marvel Comics would tell you it’s more complicated than this, but Captain America is now (and apparently has always been) a Nazi.
Jun 7, 2016 / Loren A. Lynch
Chuffah Degree Zero Chuffah Degree Zero
Why has trivial conversation become essential in contemporary cinema?
Jun 7, 2016 / Joshua Clover
The Nation’s Summer-Reading List: Part 2 The Nation’s Summer-Reading List: Part 2
Staffers and contributors share their summer reads on populism, the surrealism of immigration, how to write erotica, and more.
Jun 7, 2016 / The Nation
The Nation’s Summer-Reading List: Part 1 The Nation’s Summer-Reading List: Part 1
What’s on their lists? Eastern European history, new fiction, a biography of James Joyce, and more.
Jun 6, 2016 / The Nation
Time Servers Time Servers
A vision of time travel gets trapped in the media of our time.
Jun 2, 2016 / Books & the Arts / Ava Kofman
Stephen O’Connor Dreams of Thomas Jefferson Stephen O’Connor Dreams of Thomas Jefferson
Even as it condemns Jefferson for his immoral conduct, O’Connor’s novel still holds him up as a hero.
May 20, 2016 / Erin Vanderhoof
A Blues for Albert Murray A Blues for Albert Murray
His name was never household familiar. Yet his complex, mind-opening analysis of art and life remains as timely as ever—probably more so.
May 16, 2016 / Books & the Arts / Thomas Chatterton Williams
Don DeLillo’s American Dream Don DeLillo’s American Dream
His recent protagonists dream only of money, except perhaps for the technological advances that will allow them to go on acquiring it indefinitely.
May 11, 2016 / Books & the Arts / Jon Baskin
If Donald Trump Were a Woman and If Hillary Clinton Were a Man If Donald Trump Were a Woman and If Hillary Clinton Were a Man
Here’s what the election would look like.
May 6, 2016 / Rebecca Solnit