Authors / Nathan Goldman

Correspondence

The Nothing Letters

What might bloom in non-being?

Nathan Goldman and Claire Schwartz April 24, 2023

Fiction

A Fatal Disease

“The thought that his end was imminent always gave him a sense of release and new vitality.”

Susan Taubes April 17, 2023

Newsletter

The Conglomeration of Literature

The antitrust case against Penguin Random House’s acquisition of Simon & Schuster has reignited longstanding anxieties about corporate consolidation in publishing.

Nathan Goldman August 25, 2022

Newsletter

Can Minneapolis Reimagine Policing?

A proposed new department would include professionals like mental health workers alongside cops.

Nathan Goldman October 29, 2021

Review

That Joke Isn’t Funny Anymore

In The Netanyahus, Joshua Cohen tries and fails to reanimate the canonical Jewish American novel.

Nathan Goldman September 29, 2021

Conversation

Ghost in the Machine

Intellectual historian Peter E. Gordon discusses the role of theology and secularization in the work of the Frankfurt School philosophers.

Nathan Goldman March 16, 2021

Essay

The Sound of Messianic Time

Yo La Tengo’s new drone album, released into the formlessness of quarantine, evokes the unfulfilled waiting of Jewish messianism.

Nathan Goldman August 14, 2020

Dispatch

Taking Care

In the Twin Cities over the past week, protesters refused the state’s mythic monopoly on care, and thus its thin alibi for its violence.

Nathan Goldman and Claire Schwartz June 5, 2020

Obituary

Kaddish for David Berman

His albums took up the grand project of Jewishness, to which he came honestly: wrestling with God, playing the stranger.

Arielle Angel and Nathan Goldman August 9, 2019

Review

By What Law

Israel triumphed in acquiring a large stash of Kafka’s manuscripts. But does Israel—or anyone—really get to to claim Kafka as their own?

Nathan Goldman September 25, 2018