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Ishan Desai-Geller A conversation with Molly Crabapple about “Here Where We Live Is Our Country,” her history of Bundism, and what we can learn from their socialist and anti-Zionist example. The post The Enduring Lessons of the Jewish Bund appeared first on The Nation.

Ben Schwartz The Ellison family, poised to continue dominating the media landscape with its Warner deal, signs on an infomercial-grade comic to replace Stephen Colbert. The post Waging a Culture War by Promoting Comedic Mediocrity appeared first on The Nation.

Edna Bonhomme Memory pervades a new collection of nonfiction, and so do the ghosts of empire. The post The Worlds of Jamaica Kincaid appeared first on The Nation.

Traci Brimhall The post Learning How to See appeared first on The Nation.

Chris Lehmann The transformation of a once promising, if conservative, magazine journalist into a conspiracy-minded talking head. The post What Happened to Tucker Carlson? appeared first on The Nation.

Calvin Trillin The post Kash Patel appeared first on The Nation.

Tara K. Menon His most experimental and unsettling book, Transcription as us whether art is futile or the most important weapon we have. The post Ben Lerner’s Novel of Fathers and Sons appeared first on The Nation.

Elias Rodriques For Haywood, a truly radical working-class politics in the United States also required a program of self-determination. The post Harry Haywood and the Radical Politics of Black Communism appeared first on The Nation.

John Nichols Nineteenth-century textile workers longed to stay human in a machine age. So do we. The post As AI Breathes Down Our Necks, It’s Time for a Luddite Renaissance appeared first on The Nation.

Ben Tarnoff Separating out the myths and facts of AI. The post What Is Artificial Intelligence Anyway? appeared first on The Nation.

Erin Somers The novelist has spent a career mocking and romanticizing the lifestyle of New York's bourgeoisie. Now, in his latest, he examines them as they come to the end of their lives. The post Jay McInerney’s Yuppie New York appeared first on The Nation.

Ting Lin Zhang Yueran’s novel Women, Seated—a take on the upstairs, downstairs drama—examines class conflict among the Chinese upper crust and the people who wait on them. The post What Its Like to Serve the Chinese Elite appeared first on The Nation.

David Griscom An excerpt from the new book The Myth of Red Texas. The post The Radical Texas War Against the “Devil’s Rope” appeared first on The Nation.

Victoria Baena Why adaptations of Emily Brontë’s novel, across generations, have misunderstood the work and its world. The post The Trouble With Adapting “Wuthering Heights” appeared first on The Nation.

Quinn Moreland A retrospective of the California artist’s work emphasizes her sense that art should not be frozen in time in a gallery but belongs in the world, at home and in public. The post Communing With Ruth Asawa appeared first on The Nation.

Donald Platt The post Cephalophore appeared first on The Nation.

The Nation It’s that time of year again.  The post Who Will Win Big at the Oscars? appeared first on The Nation.

Jorge Cotte In the show’s fourth season, everyone has a story to sell and very few are true. The post The Fictitious Capital of HBO’s Industry appeared first on The Nation.

Jillian Steinhauer In his performances, he questioned whether or not an artwork needed to supply a specific meaning in order to generate a feeling. The post Tehching Hsieh—an “Artist Without Art” appeared first on The Nation.

Ben Schwartz The actress’s revived Committee for the First Amendment is taking aim at industry mergers as well as threats to the freedom of expression. The post How Jane Fonda Is Rethinking the Hollywood Resistance appeared first on The Nation.