Cynthia Ozick’s characters’ predicaments illustrate how the desire for artistic immortality, like any religious practice, can be superficial and transcendent, painful and pleasurable, writes Hannah Gold in her review of a new collection of Ozick's work. thenation.com/article/cultur…

Having achieved fame for his novels, Mark Twain then put his celebrity status to use by speaking out for his beliefs, including opposing American empire and adventurism. “I am opposed to having the eagle put its talons on any other land.” thenation.com/article/cultur…

While known for his often satirical fiction and quixotic interests and financial pursuits, Twain also became more and more radical as he got older. thenation.com/article/cultur…

Adam Hochschild in @booksandthearts on Mark Twain's many contradictions. thenation.com/article/cultur…

How to describe a Cynthia Ozick's essays? "Ideas are earthquakes; feelings are floods; literature can lift us up or smite us down" thenation.com/article/cultur…

Zohran Kwame Mamdani Katrina vandenHeuvel Jules Mohammed R. Mhawish Alana Pockros John Nichols Joan Walsh And from Books and the Arts, Adam Hochschild on Mark Twain: thenation.com/article/cultur…

Zohran Kwame Mamdani Katrina vandenHeuvel Jules Mohammed R. Mhawish Alana Pockros John Nichols Joan Walsh Books and the Arts David Cole on the echoes of the red scare: thenation.com/article/societ…

Thrilled to be nominated! Thanks to my brilliant editor David Marcus, who commissioned me as well as another finalist, and who has made The Nation's Books and the Arts section such a vital space for book criticism.

Last month, I sat down with Katrina vandenHeuvel and John Nichols to talk about the legacy of Fiorella La Guardia, how we're building a new kind of politics to meet this moment, and our mission to deliver a dignified life for the working people of this city.

What does Joe McCarthy have to teach us about Donald Trump? My review of Clay Risen’s excellent book on the Red Scare | The Nation thenation.com/article/societ…

Me on the new Catherine Lacey book for our Sept. issue. (Apparently one of its only defenders!!) thenation.com/article/cultur…

For if most of Catherine Lacey’s fiction is about running away from something or someone, in "The Möbius Book" we also get a study of how ignoring the past nearly always results in loss. thenation.com/article/cultur…

"Part of the magic of 'The Möbius Book' is that new metaphors and meanings emerge and come into focus as one reads its two different parts." A lovely piece on past The Cullman Center Fellow Catherine Lacey's fiction and her genre-bending latest in The Nation: thenation.com/article/cultur…

.Alana Pockros in @booksandthearts on Catherine Lacey's labyrinthine novels. thenation.com/article/cultur…

Adam Hochschild in @booksandthearts on Mark Twain's many contradictions. thenation.com/article/cultur…

"Just like a Möbius strip, we might be sliced down our middles, even split in half. But the bind that holds us together will always stay intact," writes Alana Pockros. thenation.com/article/cultur…

And congratulation to our finalists: David Klion (David Klion) in The Nation (The Nation), for his review of The Internationalists: The Fight to Restore American Foreign Policy After Trump by Alexander Ward Books and the Arts David Marcus

Emily Wilson in The Nation (The Nation), for her review of Wrong Norma by Anne Carson Books and the Arts David Marcus

Zohran Kwame Mamdani Katrina vandenHeuvel Jules Mohammed R Mhawish Alana Pockros John Nichols Joan Walsh Books and the Arts Liset Cruz Type Investigations And from Books and the Arts, Jorge Cotte on the politics of the latest Star Wars entry: thenation.com/article/cultur…