In the Presence of Darwish
Sinan Antoon
A tribute to the premier Arab poet of the past half-century.
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Music's Measures
Brian Morton : Jazz
A jazz writer pays tribute to his longtime collaborator on The Penguin Guide to Jazz.
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Uncomplicated
Daniel Miller
Slavoj Žižek's newest book may cause readers to conclude that the superstar philosopher has misplaced his marbles.
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Strange Alchemy
Michael Kazin
In A Conservative History of the American Left, Daniel Flynn can't decide whether to ridicule the left or fear it.
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Taz Year Thirty
Paul Hockenos
Germany's leading left daily wins the fight to name a street after a leader of the 1968 student movement.
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Looking Past Clichés
Laila Lalami
The Visitor is that rare film that defines Arabs not as ethnic or religious stereotypes but as individuals.
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The Light Stuff
Melanie Rehak : Literacy & Reading
The Kindle e-reader lightens your load, but can you curl up with it in bed?
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Victim 'Hood
Chris Lehmann : Publishing Industry
An account of the most recent installment in the nation's sick love affair with literary exhibitionists.
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Professing Literature in 2008
William Deresiewicz : Higher Education
Why is the intellectual agenda of English departments being set by teenagers?
This week: The Nation's reporter in Georgia talks for the first time about being assaulted by Ossetian paramilitaries. Plus: Dave Zirin recaps the olympic highs and lows, Barbara Crossette considers the future for Pakistan and John Nichols and historian Adele Oltman preview the Democratic Convention in the context of Dr. Martin Luther King's dream. (13mb mp3)
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