Authors / Jess Bergman
Jess Bergman is an editor at The Baffler and a contributing writer for Jewish Currents.
Review
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
Review
Survivor’s Guilt
In his Novi Sad trilogy of post-Holocaust fictions, the Serbian novelist Aleksandar Tišma examines the psychologically warping effects of antisemitism.
Jess Bergman December 14, 2021
Review
Eternal Return
In Natalia Ginzburg’s fiction—including three recently reissued works—painful things cannot be put off forever.
Jess Bergman June 18, 2021
Review
A Compendium of Severance
Susan Taubes’s Divorcing traces the separation of a wife from her husband, a family from their homeland, and a people from their God.
Jess Bergman October 27, 2020
Review
A Stranger in Silicon Valley
Anna Wiener’s memoir of her time in San Francisco tech subtly skewers the industry, but its elegantly disaffected style has its limits.
Jess Bergman May 19, 2020
Review
Grave Disturbances
Anna Burns’s Milkman bears witness to the private pain subsumed in political violence.
Jess Bergman March 13, 2019
Review
Screw Capitalism!
In her new book, Kristen Ghodsee explores how capitalism harms women, including in their intimate lives.
Jess Bergman November 13, 2018
