Bradley Babendir
Author
Tawfiq Da’adli
Author
Ben Nadler
Author
Sam Adler-Bell
Author
Carolina Ebeid
Author
Fiction
Am I a Jew or a Pole?
“Quietly, he whispered in my ear, ‘Assimilation has gone bankrupt.’ ”
Hersh Dovid Nomberg September 13, 2019
Review
Bari Weiss’s Unasked Questions
In How to Fight Anti-Semitism, a facile approach to history justifies an impoverished ethical stance.
Judith Butler September 23, 2019
Review
Speech Acts
Despite its attunement to the political potential of language, Ben Lerner’s The Topeka School remains trapped in reductive narratives about the Trump era.
Dilara O’Neil October 1, 2019
Essay
Just Playing Along
What an antisemitic, Nazi-era board game has to teach us about the nature of complicity.
Eric Thurm October 7, 2019
Review
The Rise and Fall of the Fourth Reich
A new book by historian Gavriel D. Rosenfeld traces the persistent idea of a resurgent Nazi regime.
Noah Berlatsky October 10, 2019
Report
What Really Happened at Bard College?
A Forward editor alleges she was protested for being Jewish. Witnesses tell a different story.
Mairav Zonszein October 14, 2019
Conversation
Naming the Dead
Novelist Maaza Mengiste discusses the erasure of women’s war stories, photography as a weapon of subjugation, and her new book, The Shadow King.
Lauren Goldenberg October 17, 2019
Review
Cancer and Its Metaphors
Anne Boyer’s The Undying seeks a new form for the cancer memoir.
Nancy K. Miller October 22, 2019
Essay
Washing the Dead in Pittsburgh
Our burial practices offer more than a way of dealing with the dead; they are antifascism in action.
Jordana Rosenfeld October 24, 2019
Fiction
Why We Talk in Images
“Marion takes a deep breath; the air shimmers around her, and the floor wobbles under the bed; and Henry and Dot learn that you cannot prepare yourself, in the face of death, for death.”
Will Heinrich November 29, 2019
