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Is Pitching a Novel All That Different From “Shark Tank”? 

Is Pitching a Novel All That Different From “Shark Tank”? 

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...

A Trip Through Hell

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

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.

Before Sebald Was Great

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

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.

Zohran Mamdani Is Keeping Hope Alive

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.