Responsa
How Not to Fight Antisemitism
By appropriating the right’s strategy on antisemitism, the Jewish left has trapped itself in an empty discourse—and a counterproductive pose of victimhood.
The Editors
Office Hours
Office Hours: Marilyn Golden
“Why does anyone take heed of disability access? Nobody handed out civil rights laws on a silver platter.”
Maddy Ruvolo
Folio
In honor of poet Paul Celan's centennial—and the completion of Pierre Joris's translation project—a selection of Celan's works and pieces in dialogue with him.
Excerpts from Microliths They Are, Little Stones
Excerpts from Memory Rose into Threshold Speech
Meditations on Celan
Celan’s Ferryman
Todtnauberg
To Life
Three Poems
Memoir
Flu, 1918
Remembering a year of hell and devastation—the year of the Spanish flu.
Rose Riegelhaupt
Conversation
Celan’s Ferryman
Pierre Joris, who has been translating Paul Celan into English for more than 50 years, discusses a life lived with the poet’s work.
Fanny Howe
Conversation
Portrait of a Siege
Jehad al-Saftawi’s photographs in My Gaza make up an intimate archive of daily life amid destruction.
Lakshmi Padmanabhan
Fiction
Sick Day
“Being young with a broken heart, it’s not the same as being old with a broken heart.”
Dea Hadar
Art
Material Conditions
Rachel Breen’s textile work connects the garment industry to the suffering that sustains it.
Sheila Regan
Poetry
Meditations on Celan
Reflections on mystery, translatability, and the limits of the speakable in single Celan poems
Chase Berggrun, Aria Aber, Michael Hofmann, and Peter Cole
Poetry
Excerpts from Microliths They Are, Little Stones
“Who does not expect the poem, will not recognize it either — ”
Paul Celan
Poetry
Excerpts from Memory Rose into Threshold Speech
“There was talk of your God, I spoke
/ against him”
Paul Celan
Poetry
To Life
“She feeds me for a long, murky time / her heavy wine and black milk.”
Rose Ausländer
Comic
Todtnauberg
Celan came up the mountain to visit the philosopher.
Anne Carson
Poetry
Three Poems
“The leaf is a song in a minor key”
Selma Meerbaum-Eisinger
Comic
The Haircut
The author reflects on the experience of giving her grandparents haircuts amid the pandemic.
Kayla Ginsburg
Review
A Compendium of Severance
Susan Taubes’s Divorcing traces the separation of a wife from her husband, a family from their homeland, and a people from their God.
Jess Bergman
Review
Lost and Unfounded
Will Kafka’s work survive the distorted representations made in his name?
Judith Butler
Review
Who Owns American Judaism?
Lila Corwin Berman’s new book traces the explosion of the American Jewish philanthropic sector over the past 70 years—and its corrosive effect on contemporary Jewish life.
Raphael Magarik
Art
The Odd Years
Morgan Bassichis
