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Jess Bergman

Jess Bergman is a senior editor of The Baffler and a contributing writer at Jewish Currents.

An anthropomorphized American flag has two eyes, one red and one blue. The leftmost eye, the blue eye, is crying.

Hail to the Grief

President-elect Joe Biden is “the most gothic figure in American politics.” He is “grief’s charismatic confessor,” “a kind of emissary of bereavement.” Grief is his “superpower” and “secret weapon”; through it, he has shown “that out of the darkness can ...
A woman’s lips and closed eyes are smudged against scanner glass.

I’m Not Feeling Good at All

The young woman works in an office. Her job is tedious: data entry, or coordinating the logistics for meaningless products, or proofreading niche trade publications with improbable names. She has no friends or resents the one she has. Her boyfriend is distant. Perhaps he’s not ...