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POLAR YOUTH
Misha Smirnov has the day off. There are the traditional eggs for breakfast and the usual darkness out the window.
Russian Chronicles
Russian Chronicles
A People on the Brink
Over the past century, the ancient people known as the Votes has been exiled twice, has seen its language banned, and has faced the threat of having its villages razed. Today, although teetering on the verge of extinction, it holds fast to one of the last rights it enjoys – the right to bear and to say its own name.
A Work in Infinite Progress
For the Wooster Group, theater is a religion and the process is the point. Its latest: a years-in-the-making adaptation of Brecht’s The Mother.
Enchanted New York
A tale of religion in Manhattan in the 19th and 20th centuries
Design Hunting: Rock-Star Journalist Lisa Robinson Has Lived in Her Apartment for 45 Years
She’s kept an archive of the cassette tapes containing hundreds of interviews she’s done in her Upper East Side rental.
Pandemic Pen Pals
Nupur Chaudhury, a public health strategist living in New York City, grew up in the nineties sending letters through the mail. She received weekly aerograms from relatives in India; she corresponded with a pen pal in Texas; her father even took her to admire the post office’s new stamps every month. But as she grew older, Chaudhury says, “E-mail became more popular, and I really put that writing part of me to the side”—that is, until she came across the pen pal exchange Penpalooza on Twitter in August 2020.
Craft Therapy
In her third book, the essay collection girlhood, published by Bloomsbury in March, Melissa Febos transforms scars into meditations on culture and psychology.
A Room of (Almost) My Own
Finding space, and permission, to write
Tom Stoppard's Double Life
For Britain’s leading postwar playwright, virtuosity and uncertainty go hand in hand.
A Forgotten Founder
Prince Hall was a free african american in Boston at a time of revolutionary fervor— and a transformative figure whose story deserves to be reinserted into the tale of America's creation.
We Mourn For All We Do Not Know
The Federal Writers’ Project slave narratives provide a window into our heritage—to stories of suffering but also of love, joy, wonder, and survival. They’re an all-too-rare link to ordinary black lives gone by.
Caroline Shaw is Making Classical Cool
Her innovative work won her a Pulitzer Prize at age 30. She’s collaborated with Kanye and Nas. What does her success mean for the long-suffering genre?
Tenders of the Vine
Visiting Russia’s Nascent Wine Region
Restoring the Future
A Small Town Gets a Makeover
Ascending Anik
Here I stand, on the summit of Anik Mountain, drenched to the bone amid zero visibility, driving rain, and a fierce wind.
A Time for Pirogi
Food & Drink
Finding St. Nicholas
To the undiscerning eye, the Turkish city of Demre is not much to look at, let alone stop for. Rows upon rows of greenhouses covered in clear plastic sheeting cover nearly every plot of land. The drab outpost in southwestern Anatolia lacks the luxuriant resorts and Turquoise Coast panache of such places as Bodrum, Marmaris, and Antalya, the latter a renowned haven for Russian vacationers.
A Stove Called Yerofeyich
Auntie Nina even pinched herself in the side, but no – it wasn’t a dream.
The Making of a Model Minority
Indian Americans rarely stop to ask why our entrance into American society has been so rapid—or to consider what we have in common with other nonwhite Americans.
The Second Career of Martellus Bennett
The former NFL tight end writes the kind of children’s books he would have loved as a kid.
A Life in Poetry
Our sixteenth annual look at debut poets
Akbar Edits Poetry of the Nation
In September the Nation, a bastion of progressive journalism since 1865, welcomed Kaveh Akbar as its newest poetry editor, succeeding Stephanie Burt and Carmen Giménez Smith.
A New Chapter
The board is very pleased that Melissa accepted our invitation to lead the organization forward.a
Books Offer Lifeline in Incarceration
In the first letter Danny Harris wrote to Gary Fine from solitary confinement, he made what seemed to Fine like a simple request.
Button Chair
The magic of sitting down to play
Culture Shock
Susie Yang makes a strong first impression with her thrilling debut novel, White Ivy.
Fashion Crimes
When fabulous clothes are outlawed, only outlaws will be fabulous.
Russian Chronicles
Leap year problems