Conversation
Undercover with New York Nazis
An interview with an activist who spent three months infiltrating the alt-right.
Michael McCanne
Memoir
A Chaste Piece of Ass
Performing womanhood onstage and off.
Shayna Goodman
Conversation
Sacred Ruins
Performance artist Sacha Yanow speaks with filmmaker Sasha Wortzel about queer and Jewish inheritances in Yanow’s new performance “Cherie Dre,” conceived in the ruins of the Borscht Belt.
Sacha Yanow and Sasha Wortzel
Poetry
CHAPTER XXII
In an erasure poem from Bram Stoker’s Dracula, a trans poet confronts the book’s disdain for femininity.
Chase Berggrun
Poetry
Six Lines
A mournful post-war poem by Aaron Zeitlin, translated by Miranda Cooper.
Aaron Zeitlin
Art
Structuring Voids: Jenny Yurshansky’s Malleable Monuments
Jenny Yurshansky’s work explores the search for clarity in the impossible face of trauma.
Martabel Wasserman
Art
The Art of Irreverence: Martha Rosler’s War on Complacency
“What I’m saying is, history’s a bitch.”
Rachel Wetzler
Fiction
Kaddish.com
An excerpt from the new novel by Nathan Englander.
Nathan Englander
Comic
The Kapo Kommandos
Bibi and Jared perform a baptism.
Eli Valley
Review
Strange Tales
Sabrina Orah Mark’s Wild Milk reconfigures shattered fairy tales into surreal new fables.
Eleanor Gold
Review
Grave Disturbances
Anna Burns’s Milkman bears witness to the private pain subsumed in political violence.
Jess Bergman
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
Archive
“I Work In A Factory”
Learning English in Yiddish
Eddy Portnoy
Essay
Difficult Conversations
A feminist approach to communication across difference
Jewelle Gomez