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Katha Pollitt

Shaffer Fellow

Katha Pollitt has won many awards and prizes for her work, including two National Magazine Awards, one for Essays and Criticism in 1992 and one for Columns and Commentary in 2003.
She has been awarded fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Guggenheim Foundation and the Whiting Foundation.

Pollitt is a frequent public speaker, with recent appearances at Harvard, Wellesley, Emory University, the University of Louisville, Barnard and the Center for New Words in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She has been a guest on numerous radio and TV programs. Her poems have appeared in Slate and The New Yorker. Her most recent collection of essays, Learning to Drive and Other Life Stories, was reviewed in The New York Review of Books: "The essays...describe the challenges that are the lot of an intelligent, fair-minded, politically alert woman with an inconvenient sense of the absurd. They are full of insight and charm."

Selected Articles and Interviews:

Who's Afraid of Judy Maccabee?
Column | The Nation | July 21, 2008

Iron My Skirt
Column | The Nation | June 5, 2008

'One or Two Murderers in Any Crowd'
Book Review | Sunday Book Review | May 18, 2008

Ralph Rides Again
Column | The Nation | March 17, 2008

Dumb and Dumber: An Essay and Its Editors
Op-Ed | The Washington Post | March 7, 2008

Ms.understanding
Column | The Nation | February 18, 2008

The Weepy Witch and the Secret Muslim
Column | The Nation | February 4, 2008

Maternity Fashions, Junior Size
Column | The Nation | January 21, 2008

For more information on Katha Pollitt, visit her blog.

Read the rest of Katha Pollitt's columns in The Nation here.

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The Age of the Warrior

Selected Essays

By Robert Fisk

Robert Fisk, Britain's most celebrated foreign correspondent, takes us from the London bombings to the streets of Lebanon, from war-torn Iraq to the horrors of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, offering courageous, eyewitness accounts of our blood-stained past and present. A collection of remarkable breadth and power, The Age of the Warrior is indispensable reading for our complex, battle-scarred world.

"Robert Fisk is one of the outstanding reporters of this generation. As a war correspondent he is unrivalled."
—Financial Times More


Book Tour: Salvation Boulevard by Larry Beinhart

September 9 - October 22 | Across the United States
Meet the author, listen to him discuss his latest novel, a religious detective mystery, and get your copy of Salvation Boulevard signed at any one of a number of book readings across the country during Larry Beinhart's book tour.

September 24 - November 2
Deborah Stone's Book Tour
(Across the United States)
Deborah Stone, a Nation Books author, recently published her fourth book, The Samaritan's Dilemma. Robert Kuttner, co-editor of The American Prospect calls it "a brilliant and persuasive statement of the case for organized compassion—not out of sentimentality but for the viability of society and our own self regard as a decent people." Listen to her on the radio and get a copy of the book signed at a bookstore on Stone's book tour. Find the schedule here. MORE

October 10 - 13
Greg Palast Talks About Vote Rigging on Democracy Now!
(WBAI, MNN and more)
Watch/listen to Institute Fellow Greg Palast on Democracy Now! with Amy Goodman as he talks about vote rigging and suppression ahead of the 2008 election. For more information, click here. MORE

October 17 | 8 pm
Jeremy Scahill Speaks at Wisconsin Book Festival
(Downtown Madison, Wisconsin)
Listen to Nation Books author, Institute Fellow and Polk Award winner Jeremy Scahill speak at the Wisconsin Book Festival with Amy Goodman and Bob McChesney on the state of the media. MORE

October 21 | 7:30 pm
Clive Stafford Smith Speaks at Malvern Hills
(Worcestershire, UK)
Listen to Clive Stafford Smith, Nation books author of Eight O' Clock Ferry to the Windward Side and top human rights lawyer, speak at Forum Theatre about British and American involvement in secret disappearances, torture and detention without trials. MORE

October 23 | 7:30 pm
Jeremy Scahill in Conversation with Patrick Cockburn
(Brecht Forum, New York)
Listen to Institute Fellow Jeremy Scahill in conversation with Patrick Cockburn on the Iraq War and the elections at the Brecht Forum. For more information, click here. MORE

October 30 | 5 pm
Jeremy Scahill at the University of Michigan
(Ann Arbor, Michigan)
Polk Award-winning author of Blackwater Jeremy Scahill will speak to students at the University of Michigan about his book and the private mercenaries in Iraq in the Michigan League Ballroom. MORE

November 2 | 12:30 pm
Jeremy Scahill Speaks at the Texas Book Festival in Austin
(Austin, Texas)
Listen to the Nation Books author talk about Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army at the Texas Book Festival in Austin. The talk will be held at the Capitol Extension Room E2.026. For more information, click here. MORE

November 14
Josh Kors accepts prestigious Galloway Prize at MRE conference
(National Press Club, Washington, D.C.)
Joshua Kors, author of the Investigative Fund-supported articles on veterans being cheated of their medical benefits, has won the prestigious Joseph Galloway Award of 2008. He will accept the prize at the Military Reporters and Editors conference on November 14 at The National Press Club in Washington, D.C. MORE

November 23 | 10 am
Amy Alexander at Watergate Conference
(Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.)
Listen to Institute Fellow Amy Alexander talk with fellow panelists about how bloggers are changing politics. This event is part of the National Association of Black Journalists' Watergate Conference on Political and Congressional Reporting: Did Politics Change the Media or Did Media Change Politics? MORE

December 8
The Nation Institute Annual Dinner Gala
(Metropolitan Pavilion, NYC)
The Nation Institute will host its annual fund-raising Dinner Gala this year in a new, larger location: the Metropolitan Pavilion. Watch this space—more details to follow. MORE


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