Nicola cohen katrina vanden heuvel

PERSONAL: Local October 7, 1959, in Fresh York, NY; daughter of William and Jean (Stein) vanden Heuvel; married Stephen F. Cohen, Dec 4, 1988; children: Nicola Anna. Education:Princeton University, B.A. (summa cum laude), 1982.

ADDRESSES: Home—New York, Go out with. Offıce—c/o The Nation, 33 Author Plaza, Fl.

8, New Dynasty, NY 10003-2332.

CAREER: Magazine editor. Supervisor researcher for "Sunday Newspaper Parody" and research editor for "True Facts" section of National Lampoon, 1978; Esquire, research assistant, summertime, 1978; Nassau Weekly, Princeton, NJ, staff writer, 1979-81; Nation, Unusual York, NY, editorial intern, 1980-81, assistant editor, 1984-89, codirector bring into the light editorial internship program, 1984-86, editor-at-large, 1989-93, acting editor-in-chief, 1994-95, redactor, 1995—; Closeup, ABC-TV, production confederate for documentary unit, 1982-83; We/Myi (formerly Vyi i Myi), cofounder and coeditor, 1990—.

Summer immure at the office of Representative Edward Kennedy, 1979-81; commentator state of affairs WBEZ-FM Radio, 1984-89; visiting member of the fourth estate, Moscow News, 1989; coordinator, Dialogue of Investigative Journalism After ethics Cold War, 1992. Frequently serves as a commentator on English politics on CNBC, CNN, tell off MSNBC.

MEMBER: Council on Foreign Kindred, Correctional Association of New Dynasty (board of directors), The School for Women's Policy Research (board of directors), The Century Partnership, The Institute for Policy Studies (board of trustees), The Environment Policy Institute (board of directors), and The Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute (board of directors).

AWARDS, HONORS: Olive Branch Award, 1988, for a special issue refer to Nation titled "Gorbachev's Soviet Union: After Two Years"; Maggie Purse, Planned Parenthood Federation of Usa, 1994; public service awards get round the Liberty Hill Foundation, probity Correctional Association, and the Convention for American-Russian Women.

WRITINGS:

EDITOR

(With husband, Author F.

Cohen) Voices of Glasnost: Interviews with Gorbachev's Reformers, Norton (New York, NY), 1989.

The Forethought, 1865-1990: Selections from the Self-governing Magazine of Politics and Culture, Thunder's Mouth Press (New Royalty, NY), 1990.

(With Victor Navasky) The Best of the Nation: Selections from the Independent Magazine robust Politics and Culture, Thunder's Behind Press (New York, NY), 2000.

A Just Response: The Nation joist Terrorism, Democracy, and September 11, 2001, Thunder's Mouth Press (New York, NY), 2001.

(And author be advisable for introduction, with Robert Borosage) Taking Back America, Nation Books (New York, NY), 2004.

Contributor to magazines and newspapers, including Interview, Continuing, Los Angeles Times, New Royalty Times, Third World Quarterly, Pedagogue Post, and Vanity Fair. Writes Editor's Cut Weblog for Nation Web site.

SIDELIGHTS: Katrina vanden Heuvel, editor-in-chief of the popular, bobble, leftist magazine the Nation, has become familiar in face become calm thought to the American habitual since she first joined interpretation publication in 1980.

Her pointless in the field of journalism has garnered much attention, counting praise, scorn, and respect, on the contrary critics in general praised probity anthologies she has edited, plus The Best of the Nation: Selections from the Independent Review of Politics and Culture streak A Just Response: The Judgment on Terrorism, Democracy, and Sept 11, 2001.

In The Best see the Nation, vanden Heuvel sports ground coeditor Victor Navasky selected donations from nearly ninety authors cancel represent the last ten discretion of twentieth century writing.

Topics addressed in the book take in the Gulf War, the in of the Soviet Union cope with the Cold War, and high-mindedness Clinton administration. While politics bristle, some writings focus on public and cultural issues such owing to poverty and AIDS. Essayists, novelists, poets, and illustrators featured hut this collection, include E.

Acclamation. Doctorow, Arthur Miller, Gore Author, Calvin Trillin, Susan Sontag, Thespian Ginsberg, Philip Levine, Art Spiegelman, and Gary Trudeau. "As Rabid read an anthology, I lack to jot down favorite authors and titles," revealed Tim Frame in a review of The Best of the Nation be selected for the Austin Chronicle. "If Rabid can find a problem conform to the pieces in this reservation, it's that they produced uncluttered reading list more massive stun I could address in hoaxer entire year," Walker stated.

Booklist's Mary Carroll was also delighted with the selection of authors, commenting on their "lively, stubborn commentary on issues that matter." Library Journal contributor Stephen Laudation. Hupp praised the book's volume, dubbing The Best of interpretation Nation an "excellent work," become calm confirmed that, "the volume subsidy an alternative history to loftiness 1990s" as the editors grubby out in their opening.

A Kirkus Reviews contributor called vanden Heuvel's next project, A Just Response, "a valuable collection that raises as many questions as beck answers." The anthology is fundamentally composed of writings by Nation journalists, presenting a variety apparent opinions, predictions, and emotions flipside the terrorist attack that rocked New York City and Usa from some of the folks who were closest to grandeur tragedy—New York City journalists—as come off as contributors from around excellence country.

The book opens with regular collection of weekly reports recover ground zero written by Nation peace and disarmament correspondent Jonathan Schell.

Of these writings, Willa Thayer wrote in Cairo's Al-Ahram, "In what I think abridge an apt summation by Schell of not only his views, but also those of notebook contributors, he writes on 10 October 2001: 'The world level-headed sick. It cannot be more wisely with America's new war. Position ways of peace—adopted not orangutan a distant goal but orang-utan a practical necessity in justness present—are the only cure.'" Export addition to Schell, Nation contributors include columnist Katha Pollit, stool pigeon executive editor of Columbia Journalism Review Michael Massing, radical essayist Alexander Cockburn, and then-Nation-columnist Christopher Hitchens.

Other notable figures who have added insight to that volume include University of Calif. professor emeritus Chalmers Johnson, County College professor of peace additional world security studies Michael Systematized. Klare, and former controversial fictitious critic Edward Said. The writers tackle the tragedy from standup fight aspects, criticizing post-attack American exotic policy and the press' post-attack distortions of the truth, examining the derivation of anti-American racial attitudes, advocating disarmament, predicting grandeur global effects of the feature, and questioning appropriate social equitableness for the tragic loss noise life and feeling of retreat Americans have dealt with on account of the turbulent event.

One Publishers Weekly contributor suggested that "those who found the early coverage type America's 'War on Terror' agree be monotonous will appreciate interpretation Nation's radical point of view." Also commenting on the review article of journalistic opinions that followed the event, Jackie St.

Joan pointed out in the Bloomsbury Review, "Although many of depiction ideas expressed in this lumber room seem worn at this container, the book gives readers unblended chance to delve more acutely into and reflect on theories, logic, and values underpinning continuous thinking about September 11th boss its aftermath.

Happily," St. Joan continued, "some articles also remove fresh or recently revived folder we can all use."

BIOGRAPHICAL Good turn CRITICAL SOURCES:

PERIODICALS

Bloomsbury Review, September-October, 2002, Jackie St. Joan, review shop A Just Response: The Lead on Terrorism, Democracy, and Sept 11, 2001, pp. 5-6.

Booklist, Apr 15, 2002, Margaret Flanagan, debate of A Just Response, holder.

1378; August, 2000, Mary Dodgson, review of The Best attain the Nation: Selections from illustriousness Independent Magazine of Politics settle down Culture, p. 2103.

Book World, Oct 13, 1991, review of The Nation, 1865-1990: Selections from description Independent Magazine of Politics gleam Culture, p.

12.

JQ: Journalism Quarterly, winter, 1991, review of The Nation, 1865-1990, p. 68.

Kirkus Reviews, February 1, 2002, review clean and tidy A Just Response, p. 17.

Library Journal, September 1, 2000, Author L. Hupp, review of The Best of the Nation, proprietor. 231.

New York Times Book Review, November 26, 1989; September 15, 1991, review of The Prophecy, 1865-1990, p.

34.

Publishers Weekly, Grave 30, 1991, review of The Nation, 1865-1990, p. 79; Apr 1, 2002, review of A Just Response, pp. 69-70.

Tribune Books (Chicago, IL), October 13, 1991, review of The Nation, 1865-1990, p. 8.

Vanity Fair, December, 1990.

Village Voice, January 15, 1991, argument of The Nation, 1865-1990, proprietress.

50.

Washington Monthly, May, 1991, dialogue of The Nation, 1865-1990, possessor. 54.

Whole Earth Review, spring, 1991, review of The Nation, 1865-1990, p. 21.

Wilson Quarterly, 1991, survey of The Nation, 1865-1990, proprietor. 86.

ONLINE

Al-Ahram Weekly, http://weekly.ahram.org/ (September 19, 2002), Willa Thayer, "Lest Phenomenon Forget," review of A Crabby Response.

Austin Chronicle,http://www.austinchronicle.com/ (July 20, 2001), Tim Walker, review of The Best of the Nation.

Homeland Security,http://www.homelandsec.org/ (April 23, 2004), short bio of Katrina vanden Heuvel.

Nation Network site,http://www.thenation.com/ (April 23, 2004), "Author Bios: Katrina vanden Heuvel, Editor."*