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Review
The Lives of Animals in Wartime
Penny Johnson’s book argues that thinking about the suffering of animals under occupation can actually reveal a great deal about humanity.
Colin Dickey May 20, 2019
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A Critic Compromised
Who Wants to Be a Jewish Writer? contains two irreconcilable Adam Kirsches.
Bradley Babendir April 17, 2019
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Practicing Capitalists
In The Lehman Trilogy, a Jewish fable of greed and hubris.
Aaron Freedman April 8, 2019
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Rules for Reformists
Can an activist handbook from 1971 really guide today’s movements?
Michael McCanne March 26, 2019
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Grave Disturbances
Anna Burns’s Milkman bears witness to the private pain subsumed in political violence.
Jess Bergman March 13, 2019
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Strange Tales
Sabrina Orah Mark’s Wild Milk reconfigures shattered fairy tales into surreal new fables.
Eleanor Gold March 6, 2019
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Through the Looking Glass
Our American Israel examines the projections and anxieties that animate the US-Israel relationship.
Mari Cohen February 26, 2019
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Mission Not Quite Accomplished
“Vice” is a flawed but valuable corrective to liberal Bush era amnesia.
Brendan James January 7, 2019
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The Past Is Not Past
The Romanian filmmaker Radu Jude interrogates his country’s antisemitic history and its echoes in the present.
Mitchell Abidor December 25, 2018
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What to Do When a Nazi Runs for President
A recent documentary revisits the 1986 election of a former Nazi to the Austrian presidency and the activists who sought to shut him down.
Deborah Krieger December 24, 2018
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Is ‘The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel’ in on the Joke?
For all the affection Mrs. Maisel showers on Jewish comedy, it doesn”t seem to understand its function.
Ari M. Brostoff December 7, 2018
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Someday, This Occupation Will End
Two distinct but complementary visions of how to fight for justice in Palestine.
Joshua Leifer November 14, 2018
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Screw Capitalism!
In her new book, Kristen Ghodsee explores how capitalism harms women, including in their intimate lives.
Jess Bergman November 13, 2018
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What Happened to the Black-Jewish Political Alliance?
Challenging the sanitized history of blacks and Jews during the Civil Rights era.
Rachel Cohen October 25, 2018
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The Revolution in Vitebsk
A review in comic form of the Jewish Museum’s exhibit “Chagall, Lissitzky, Malevich: The Russian Avant-Garde in Vitebsk, 1918-1922.”
Julia Alekseyeva October 24, 2018
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Skin in the Game
Spike Lee’s BlacKkKlansman puts stress on the dual threats of white supremacy: antisemitism and racism.
Zack Graham October 19, 2018
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A Palestinian Filmmaker Asks: What Do Fathers and Sons Owe Each Other?
In Annemarie Jacir’s Wajib, a family considers what it means to build a life.
Naomi Dann October 5, 2018
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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
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What Marx Got Wrong
A new biography of the philosopher misses the shortcomings of the Marxist tradition.
Mitchell Abidor September 20, 2018
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A Road Trip Through America in Decline
In Lake Success, Gary Shteyngart takes aim at white male mediocrity and America under Trump.
Sasha Senderovich September 6, 2018
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Dreams of Baking Bread
Poet Janlori Goldman’s new collection is one to be read and read again.
Jessica de Koninck August 6, 2018
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Boots Riley Is Telling Liberal America Not to Be Fooled
Sorry to Bother You is a powerful rejoinder to the capitalist monoculture of our time.
Brendan James August 1, 2018
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Sacha Baron Cohen and the Right’s Imaginary Israeli
The British comedian returns to form with his new show, Who is America?
Noah Kulwin July 16, 2018
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Your Curiosity Will Not Be Satisfied
Ambiguity and discomfort in Batsheva Dance Company’s “Naharin’s Virus.”
Maia Ipp July 12, 2018
