Authors / Nathan Goldman

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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?