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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
In a Crowded Place
“Strangers warmed each other, breathing down each other’s necks and in each other’s faces.”
Jonah Rosenfeld May 12, 2020
The Capitalist’s Kibbutz
WeWork sold Wall Street a fantasy of Israeli communal living with an entrepreneurial twist—until it collapsed.
Sam Adler-Bell May 11, 2020
