Non-fiction

In Our Orbit In Our Orbit

In 1990, The Nation ran a dispatch from Portland, Oregon, by editorial board member Elinor Langer titled "The American Neo-Nazi Movement Today." The piece, which took up almost...

Oct 2, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Emily Biuso

Savage Modernism Savage Modernism

A refugee from Nazism and a distinguished New York psychoanalyst, Sandor Rado had thought long and deeply about Hitler's takeover of Germany. Years ago, the writer Otto Friedri...

Sep 25, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Russell Jacoby

The Gray Zone The Gray Zone

On a hot, dusty summer day in 1998, I drove with friends from Smolensk to the village of Zagor'e to meet Ivan Tvardovsky, a survivor of Stalin's forced-labor camps and the brot...

Sep 25, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Lynne Viola

A Kinder, Gentler Fundamentalism A Kinder, Gentler Fundamentalism

In his 1998 book, One Nation, After All, Alan Wolfe chided liberals for their misapprehensions about the political attitudes of ordinary Americans.

Sep 18, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Michael Massing

Liberal Pieties Liberal Pieties

CORRECTION: The Fisher family of Six Feet Under is Episcopalian, not Catholic. (10/1)

Sep 4, 2003 / Books & the Arts / JoAnn Wypijewski

Our Families, Ourselves Our Families, Ourselves

Eyal Press is working on a book about the abortion wars in Buffalo, New York.

Sep 4, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Eyal Press

The Mess in Mesopotamia The Mess in Mesopotamia

If you want to read everything The Nation has ever published on Iraq, click here for information on how to acquire individual access to the Archive--an electronic database of every...

Aug 14, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Andrew Cockburn

Soul Man Soul Man

Pop music's eternal appeal can be found in one instance out of many: "This Magic Moment," a 1960 song by The Drifters.

Jul 31, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Armond White

Operation Iranian Freedom Operation Iranian Freedom

Click here to read Iran's New Strong Man by Andrew Roth from the September 5, 1953 issue of The Nation.

Jul 31, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Tariq Ali

The Road Map to Nowhere The Road Map to Nowhere

Although the laboriously negotiated and long-delayed Middle East "road map" received a diplomatic boost by the recent intervention of George W. Bush, the plan is replet...

Jul 2, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Roane Carey

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