Responsa
Days of Rest
On anti-work politics and the meaning of Shabbat
The Editors
Office Hours
Office Hours: Donald Whitehead
“Every time you break up a homeless encampment, you force people into isolation.”
Jesse Rabinowitz
Music
A Shabbat for All Creation
Selections from Perek Shirah set to music testify to the holiness in all beings.
Nathan Salsburg
Correspondence
The Nothing Letters
What might bloom in non-being?
Nathan Goldman and Claire Schwartz
Essay
The Strange Hours
Finding a new relationship with rest in early motherhood
Maryam Ivette Parhizkar
Essay
Dreams Under Confinement
Mapping the pandemic’s collective unconscious
Rona Lorimer
Profile
Lessons From the Blast Radius
Drawing on the disorienting experience of becoming disabled, the artist Johanna Hedva explores the feeling of being out of sync with capitalist time.
Liz Bowen
Dispatch
The Fragile Now
A Ukrainian poet reflects on the new ordinary.
Lyudmyla Khersonska
Chevruta
What Is Debt and When Can We Refuse to Pay?
An investigation through Jewish text.
Allen Lipson
in conversation with
Sparky Abraham and Eleni Schirmer
Fiction
A Fatal Disease
“The thought that his end was imminent always gave him a sense of release and new vitality.”
Susan Taubes
Art
Do Less
nibia pastrana santiago confronts the politics of movement by making dances that refuse to dance.
nibia pastrana santiago
Poetry
The Store
“the floors we cleaned, / the money we made to pay off / ownable things”
Mario Chard
Poetry
As:
“the light of beginning which hasn’t yet been / in rivers of letters running through words”
Peter Cole
Review
Who Will Power the Climate Revolution?
Two new books exemplify divergent approaches to the climate crisis. But who are the revolutionary subjects positioned to enact them?
Dylan Saba
Review
Entering the DreamSpace
The new manifesto from the Nap Ministry’s Tricia Hersey argues for a vision of rest as politically generative. But what kind of resistance, really, is rest?
Helen Betya Rubinstein
Review
Idlers of the World, Unite!
In Paul Lafargue’s irreverent 1883 pamphlet The Right to Be Lazy, satire is not a tool of glib mockery, but a utopian strategy for imagining another world.
Charlie Tyson