Watching the End of the World

Why don’t we make movies about nuclear war anymore?

What Would Doctorow Do?

His novels might be read as a fictive analogue to Howard Zinn’s People’s History of the United States: a polyphonic chronicle of the betrayal of his country’s original promise.

Still Tilting at Windmills

On the 400th anniversary of Cervantes’s death, Spain struggles to honor its literary heritage

An Afterthought on Indyref

Overnight, the hopeful, broad-based, grassroots independence movement gave rise to the righteous wronged.

A Better Nation

Scotland’s independence referendum is a contest between the head and the heart, between love and money.

Architecture in Extremis

Shigeru Ban receives the Pritzker Architecture Prize. Does he deserve it?

Rodolfo Walsh and the Struggle for Argentina

Before In Cold Blood, there was Operation Massacre.

Exhuming Neruda

How did Chile’s great poet die?

Washed Away

Remembering Japan’s tsunami.

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