Despite its attunement to the political potential of language, Ben Lerner’s The Topeka School remains trapped in reductive narratives about the Trump era.
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In How to Fight Anti-Semitism, a facile approach to history justifies an impoverished ethical stance.
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Fidler afn Dakh opens new possibilities for reading the iconic play, but it's not clear who's noticing.
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This emerging canon of American Jewish poets imagines Jewishness anew in its true complexity and multiplicity.
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As the popularity of social realist cinema wanes, Ken Loach and the Dardenne brothers offer possible visions for the genre’s future.
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Natasha Lennard's otherwise incisive new essay collection fails to adequately address what nonwhiteness might offer antifascist thought.
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A new biography of Marxist historian Eric Hobsbawm downplays his Jewishness and attempts to soften his radicalism.
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What would an English translation of the Hebrew Bible look like if we could take off the Christ-colored glasses?
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A new retrospective documents Julia Scher’s decades-long project of turning surveillance around.
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