The Nation
Founded in 1865, The Nation is the oldest continuously published weekly magazine in the United States. The periodical, devoted to politics and culture, is self-described as "the flagship of the left". It is now also available in a digital edition.
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The Firesign Theatre: Sixties Laugh-In: The Firesign Theatre
Retrospective by Gene Santoro, The Nation, 21 January 1999
"THEY'VE COME TO steal my dreams," whimpers a female voice. A series of male voices drifts past: "Get up, lady." "It's the trade of the ...
Review by Gene Santoro, The Nation, 18 February 1999
FOR THE PAST year and a half, I've been spending most of my time between 1922 and 1979 – the years of Charles Mingus's birth ...
Tom Waits: Guthrie's Heir?: Tom Waits' Mule Variations
Review by Gene Santoro, The Nation, 6 May 1999
TOM WAITS IS an imaginary hobo. He cruises the oddball corners of American pop culture, collecting the deft and moving and loopy short takes he ...
Emmylou Harris: Born to Run: Emmylou Harris' Red Dirt Girl
Review by Gene Santoro, The Nation, 12 October 2000
THE SOUND OF Wrecking Ball (Elektra), Emmylou Harris's 1995 album produced by former Brian Eno/Neville Brothers associate Daniel Lanois, drew me back toward her. ...
Film/DVD/TV Review by Gene Santoro, The Nation, 12 January 2001
LET'S CUT TO the chase on Ken Burns's Jazz, which rolled out on PBS January 8, by invoking Wallace Stevens. ...
Buffalo Springfield: American Buffalo
Retrospective by Gene Santoro, The Nation, 9 August 2001
UNSTABLE CHEMISTRY can cause spectacular effects – that's one way to think of Buffalo Springfield. Another is to consider the band an American musical smorgasbord ...
Dave Van Ronk: Folk's Missing Link
Retrospective by Gene Santoro, The Nation, 4 April 2002
I WAS IN HIGH school in the 1960s when I first saw Dave Van Ronk at the Gaslight, one of those little cellar clubs that ...
Retrospective by Gene Santoro, The Nation, 16 May 2002
WHEN I FIRST saw The Last Waltz in 1978, I almost walked out, although I was a fan of both director Martin Scorsese and The ...
Chet Baker: James Gavin: Deep in a Dream – The Long Night of Chet Baker
Book Review by Gene Santoro, The Nation, 27 June 2002
IT'S EASY TO rephrase Tolstoy's opening to Anna Karenina so it describes junkies, who all share an essential plot line: Who and how to hustle ...
Bob Dylan: Scene of the Crime: Bob Dylan at Newport
Essay by Gene Santoro, The Nation, 15 August 2002
EVERYONE KNOWS what happened thirty-seven years ago when Bob Dylan fronted an electric band at the Newport Folk Festival, which is why August 3 saw ...
Bruce Springsteen: Hey, He's Bruce
Essay by Gene Santoro, The Nation, 29 August 2002
WHEN BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN and the E Street Band, reunited to tour behind The Rising, came to Madison Square Garden on August 12, they juxtaposed '41 ...
Ani DiFranco: Blowin' in a New Wind
Essay by Gene Santoro, The Nation, 26 November 2002
AS THE 2002 election results came in, I surfed through 100 cable channels with nothing on and hit an infomercial hosted by John Sebastian for ...
Sweet Soul Music: Gerald Posner's Motown – Music, Money, Sex, and Power
Essay by Gene Santoro, The Nation, 23 December 2002
As Trent Lott struggled to "repudiate" segregation fifty years after it was outlawed, about the only point he left out of his incoherent counterattack is ...
Interview by Miles Marshall Lewis, The Nation, January 2003
RUSSELL SIMMONS, known for decades as Rush to his friends, is of average height and build for a man his age (45), with a clean-shaven ...
George Wein: Myself Among Others – A Life in Music
Book Review by Gene Santoro, The Nation, 26 June 2003
NOT MANY PEOPLE can say they changed the world and make it stick. In Myself Among Others: A Life in Music, George Wein does. Without ...
Ray Charles, Robert Quine: Remembering Ray Charles and Robert Quine
Obituary by Gene Santoro, The Nation, 24 June 2004
After Ronald Reagan's death, Ray Charles's version of 'Amazing Grace', one of Reagan's favourite songs, kept popping up on radio and TV. Why not? ...
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