Bear Witness
November 16, 2021
Can an act of interspecies violence bridge the human/animal divide?
Nathan Goldman
Nathan Goldman is the managing editor at Jewish Currents. His work has appeared in The Nation, Bookforum, and Lapham’s Quarterly, among other publications.
Far from the Maddening Crowd
In the spring of 1973, the Italian writer Guido Morselli returned from vacation to his home in rural Lombardy, where he lived alone, to a fateful letter from the publisher Mondadori. Before departing for a foray into the mountains, he sent off the manuscript of his most recent ...
Kafka in Pieces
October 7, 2020
On a newly translated collection of Kafka fragments.
Angry Young Men
September 23, 2019
Ben Lerner studies the wreckage of white masculinity.
Conventional Wisdom
April 3, 2019
Sally Rooney grapples with the tension between radical politics and the conventional pleasures of literature.
American Scapegoat
March 5, 2019
The furor over Ilhan Omar's remarks is not about anti-Semitism.
Fanatical Moderate
November 13, 2018
In Dear Zealots, Amos Oz is unwavering in his commitment to a Jewish nationalism as simple and brutal as any other.