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Wallace Shawn’s Moral Cliffs
While his latest show, What We Did Before Our Moth Days, trades political violence for marital strife, it is still an exercise in audience complicity.
Alisa Solomon May 20, 2026
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The Limits of Diasporism
Despite effectively displacing Israel as the center of left Jewish identity, diasporism might sap substance from our anti-Zionism.
J.A. Cohen April 16, 2026
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The Rhythm of Revolution
A new edition of a landmark anthology of Palestinian resistance poetry testifies to both a steadfast lineage of anti-colonial resistance and an increasingly under-resourced leftist internationalism.
Zaina Alsous April 16, 2026
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Israeli Grotesque
Nadav Lapid’s new film, which asks what it means to affirm the Jewish state now, is his most vitriolic repudiation yet.
Mitchell Abidor March 31, 2026
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Whose Jewish Dystopia?
With their dark visions of the future, two recent novels illuminate mutually incompatible forms of contemporary Jewish fear.
Lily Meyer October 31, 2025
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The Dream Logic of Fascism
In Charlotte Beradt’s study of nightmares under Nazism, the analysis often seems inadequate to the material.
Raphael Magarik October 31, 2025
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History Lesson
Adam Kirsch’s On Settler Colonialism is an anti-woke screed disguised as serious scholarship.
Laleh Khalili June 17, 2025
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The Sympathy Trap
In Perfect Victims, Mohammed El-Kurd argues that attempts to “humanize” Palestinians reinforce the Zionist politics they purport to contest.
Jackie Wang June 17, 2025
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Sonic Bloom
The film The Klezmer Project suggests a new ethic of diasporism—rejecting both the violence of Zionism and the sentimental dream of recovering a Yiddish past.
Sanders Isaac Bernstein December 19, 2024
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No Exit
Rachel Kushner’s Creation Lake cedes the sense of possibility that animates her earlier novels.
Nora Caplan-Bricker December 14, 2024
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The Hösses’ Colonial Paradise
Jonathan Glazer’s The Zone of Interest disrupts the genre of Holocaust cinema by re-situating the Shoah in history.
Jonathan Shamir August 21, 2024
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The Energetic Executive
Ron DeSantis wants to make his blueprint for Florida—outlined in the rancorous memoir written for his failed presidential campaign—into a model for the rest of the country.
Samantha Schuyler August 12, 2024
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Is This Anything?
Taffy Brodesser-Akner’s Long Island Compromise reproduces the nullity at the heart of contemporary American Jewish life.
Mitchell Abidor August 2, 2024
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Two Paths for Diasporism
Daniel Boyarin’s The No-State Solution seeks to revive the idea of Jews as a “diaspora nation,” but reduces a powerful repository of political templates to a dissident subculture.
Julie E. Cooper September 28, 2023
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Staging Resistance
In Isabella Hammad’s Enter Ghost, art prepares the ground of the self for the demands of collectivity.
Nora Caplan-Bricker September 28, 2023
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Chile’s Documentarian of Dashed Dreams
Fifty years after a coup ended Chile’s socialist experiment, the films of Patricio Guzmán—now on view in a New York retrospective—offer a guide to the era and its long shadow.
Mitchell Abidor September 7, 2023
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Family Ties
For novelist Rona Jaffe, the drive for independence was inculcated in the intimate sphere of the family, where care could look an awful lot like coercion.
Jess Bergman July 18, 2023
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Exile in the Interior
In his recently reissued Hebrew novel, Anton Shammas uses the arabesque’s infinity to contest the Zionist enclosures of Palestinian life.
Isabella Hammad July 10, 2023
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Who’s Afraid of Absurdity?
A revival of Lorraine Hansberry’s last play, The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window, captures its author’s wry rejection of political nihilism.
Alisa Solomon April 25, 2023
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Idlers of the World, Unite!
In Paul Lafargue’s irreverent 1883 pamphlet The Right to Be Lazy, satire is not a tool of glib mockery, but a utopian strategy for imagining another world.
Charlie Tyson March 20, 2023
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Entering the DreamSpace
The new manifesto from the Nap Ministry’s Tricia Hersey argues for a vision of rest as politically generative. But what kind of resistance, really, is rest?
Helen Betya Rubinstein March 6, 2023
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Shall We Not Revenge?
In his polemic against Germany’s “Theater of Memory”—which relegates Jews to bit parts in the nation’s redemption narrative—poet Max Czollek may have traded one melodrama for another.
Sanders Isaac Bernstein March 3, 2023
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Who Will Power the Climate Revolution?
Two new books exemplify divergent approaches to the climate crisis. But who are the revolutionary subjects positioned to enact them?
Dylan Saba February 6, 2023
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The Prophet with Eyes
In Olga Tokarczuk’s The Books of Jacob, based on the real life of a self-proclaimed Jewish messiah in 18th-century Poland, theological energy competes with the liberal novel’s finely wrought machinery.
Raphael Magarik November 28, 2022
