Victor Navasky

Victor S. Navasky, a witty and contrarian journalist who for 27 years as either editor or publisher commanded The Nation, the left-leaning magazine that is America’s oldest weekly, and who also wrote the book “Naming Names,” a breakthrough chronicle of the Hollywood blacklisting era, died on Monday January 23 2023 in Manhattan. He was 90. He received a bachelor’s degree in 1954 from Swarthmore College and served two years in the Army. Afterward, he attended Yale Law School on the G.I. Bill, graduating in 1959. He married Annie Strongin, a stockbroker, in 1966. In addition to his son Bruno, she survives him, along with two daughters, Miri and Jenny Navasky, and five grandchildren.