Newsletter

[unfinished draft]

“when fucking, I frequently mistake cries of pleasure for cries of faith”

Rachel Mennies May 22, 2020

No Bark, No Bite

Senate Democrats’ watered-down letter on annexation is an object lesson in how Biden’s candidacy is already letting Israel off the hook.

Peter Beinart May 21, 2020

Exodus: Beshalach

For the enslaved, the formerly enslaved, and the otherwise surveilled, wandering is not simply unproductive movement; it is self-possessed, erratic, wayward action.

Omari Weekes May 20, 2020

A Stranger in Silicon Valley

Anna Wiener’s memoir of her time in San Francisco tech subtly skewers the industry, but its elegantly disaffected style has its limits.

Jess Bergman May 19, 2020

Provisions #4: “here in a foreign place, my thoughts of you sharpen”

Meditations in a crisis on poems by Wang Wei, Enheduanna, and Ross Gay.

Wendy Xu, Kaveh Akbar, and Ashon T. Crawley May 15, 2020

Portrait of the Artist in Quarantine: Day 14, Post-Grocery Run

What can you make with matzah meal and some old potatoes?

Kayla Ginsburg May 15, 2020

Q & A with Gabi Kirk

An interview with the author of our recent feature on California’s ethnic studies curriculum.

David Klion May 14, 2020

Exodus: Bo

How do you read a plague?

Briallen Hopper May 13, 2020