In May 2001, I spent two weeks in a Colombian town that had been taken over by paramilitary forces imposing law and order through selective killings -- what Colombians call a limpieza. I thought it ...

The diary kept by the teenager Anne Frank between 1942 and 1944, whilst in hiding from the Nazis in Amsterdam, is one of the most widely read and impressive books of the twentieth century. It is ...

When I began writing about the 1916 Rising through the eyes of a child, the diary format felt a natural fit. Dublin was crammed with writers in 1916, famous and obscure, dashing down their experiences ...

“The notebooks of a writer,” wrote Susan Sontag in 1963, “have a very special function […] Typically, writers’ notebooks are crammed with statements about the will: the will to write, the will to love ...

In 1971, the artist Rosemary Mayer was 28 and living alone in New York City. At the time, much of her work took the form of large abstract sculptures made from fabric that was pinned, knotted, draped, ...

A man cross an empty highway road on February 3, 2020, in Wuhan, Hubei province, China. (Photo by Getty Images) EDITOR’S NOTE: The Nation believes that helping readers stay informed about the impact ...