Gish Jen has always had something of a "Frank Capra-esque" view of America. Like Capra, who directed immortal Hollywood films like Mr. Smith Goes to Washington and It's a Wonderful Life, Jen's big ...

2023 marked the 100th anniversary of the country's oldest secular pacifist organization, the War Resisters League. Also, a new film opened in November about Bayard Rustin, who organized the 1963 Great ...

Speculative fiction is having a day. Readers are diving into the horrors of our current moment through literature with a fantastical gaze from authors such as Margaret Atwood and Ta-Nehisi Coates.

For all the fanfare about a new golden age brought gloriously to life by computers, digital technology and artificial intelligence, skeptics — or are they realists? — prefer to warn us about a ...

President Warren G. Harding once urged the American people to "strive for production as Babe Ruth strives for home runs." In Gish Jen's inventive but muddled dystopian novel The Resisters, production ...

Sign up for our Wine Club today. Did you know you can support The Nation by drinking wine? Former Private Kimberly Rivera is a long way from home. Since moving to ...

The passing of Jimmy Carter has been duly noted in ubiquitous remembrances and commentaries on his four-year presidency, 1977-1981. Carter is lauded more for his post-presidential humanitarian ...