Ben Sandman Alex Higley’s True Failure, which dramatizes one man’s dream to pitch his business idea on reality TV, slyly compares this bathetic task to publishing literary fiction. The post Is Pitching a Novel All That Different From “Shark Tank”? appeared first on...
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A Trip Through Hell
Christopher Blackwell In a Washington county jail, solitary confinement is the worst, most degrading, foulest experience you could ever imagine. The post A Trip Through Hell appeared first on The Nation.
The Great Salt Lake Is a Ticking Time Bomb
Adelaide Parker Retreating water levels are exposing stretches of cracked, arsenic-laden lakebed in Utah. Future dust storms will carry an extra hazard. The post The Great Salt Lake Is a Ticking Time Bomb appeared first on The Nation.
A New Report Exposes How Major American Corporations Have Been All Too Eager to Aid Israeli’s Atrocities in Gaza
Katrina vanden Heuvel It also reveals our nation’s now undeniable complicity in what has been described as the worst humanitarian crisis of the 21st century. The post A New Report Exposes How Major American Corporations Have Been All Too Eager to Aid Israeli’s...
Keep Digging, Donald. You’re Keeping the Epstein Scandal Alive.
Joan Walsh Trump’s bizarre claim that he fell out with the indicted child sex trafficker because Epstein “stole” workers from Mar-a-Lago only raises more lurid questions. The post Keep Digging, Donald. You’re Keeping the Epstein Scandal Alive. appeared first on The...
A New Report Exposes How Major American Corporations Have Been All Too Eager to Aid Israeli’s Atrocities in Gaza
Katrina vanden Heuvel It also reveals our nation’s now undeniable complicity in what has been described as the worst humanitarian crisis of the 21st century. The post A New Report Exposes How Major American Corporations Have Been All Too Eager to Aid Israeli’s...
Keep Digging, Donald. You’re Keeping the Epstein Scandal Alive.
Joan Walsh Trump’s bizarre claim that he fell out with the indicted child sex trafficker because Epstein “stole” workers from Mar-a-Lago only raises more lurid questions. The post Keep Digging, Donald. You’re Keeping the Epstein Scandal Alive. appeared first on The...
What We Can Learn About Immigration From an Unlikely Source: Ronald Reagan
Brad Swanson Rather than deporting millions of migrants, this Republican president opted for the opposite strategy—legalizing them. The post What We Can Learn About Immigration From an Unlikely Source: Ronald Reagan appeared first on The Nation.
Before Sebald Was Great
David Schurman Wallace By looking at his early work, we can better understand who the German writer was beyond his persona as the melancholy intellectual and serious man of letters. The post Before Sebald Was Great appeared first on The Nation.
It Has Never Been Easy to Be Both Black and American
Keenan Norris The administration knows that subduing history as it is doing works to keep people of color in this country disunited and at odds with each other. The post It Has Never Been Easy to Be Both Black and American appeared first on The Nation.
These Kids in Gaza Are Starving. So Are Their Mothers.
A. Khalil “There’s not enough food for me, so how can I have enough milk for her?” one woman says. The post These Kids in Gaza Are Starving. So Are Their Mothers. appeared first on The Nation.
Zohran Mamdani Is Keeping Hope Alive
Jeet Heer The doom-obsessed Democratic Party remains as unpopular as ever—but there is another path. The post Zohran Mamdani Is Keeping Hope Alive appeared first on The Nation.