Ruth Margalit

The Mystical Realist

Jon Fosse’s Septology is suffused with religious symbolism, taking on, in its incantatory language and repetitions, the rhythm of the rosary.

The Other Name: Septology I–II

by Jon Fosse, translated from the Norwegian by Damion Searls

I Is Another: Septology III–V

by Jon Fosse, translated from the Norwegian by Damion Searls

September 23, 2021 issue

Residents of Ganei Tikvah, near Tel Aviv, Israel, 1982

Women Not at Home

Ronit Matalon’s Israeli novels follow immigrant families much like her own.

The Sound of Our Steps

by Ronit Matalon, translated from the Hebrew by Dalya Bilu

The One Facing Us

by Ronit Matalon, translated from the Hebrew by Marsha Weinstein

And the Bride Closed the Door

by Ronit Matalon, translated from the Hebrew by Jessica Cohen

November 5, 2020 issue

Pandemic Journal

Dispatches from around the world documenting the coronavirus outbreak

April 23, 2020 issue

Pandemic Journal, March 17–22

Dispatches on the coronavirus outbreak from Madeleine Schwartz in Brooklyn, Anne Enright in Dublin, Joshua Hunt in Busan, Anna Badkhen in Lalibela, Lauren Groff in Gainesville, and more.

March 22, 2020

‘Fading Memory,’ 2014; collage by Johanna Goodman

When Reality Slips

The Man Who Saw Everything

by Deborah Levy

February 13, 2020 issue

The Girl Behind Lolita

The Real Lolita: The Kidnapping of Sally Horner and the Novel That Scandalized the World

by Sarah Weinman

Rust & Stardust

by T. Greenwood

February 7, 2019 issue

A Mug’s Game

Property: Stories Between Two Novellas

by Lionel Shriver

July 19, 2018 issue

Flirting with Time

Asymmetry

by Lisa Halliday

June 7, 2018 issue

The Voice of Authority

Forest Dark

by Nicole Krauss

December 21, 2017 issue

Menashe Lustig in Joshua Z. Weinstein’s film Menashe

So When Are You Getting Married?

For the characters of ‘Srugim,’ dating isn’t casual or diversionary: it is existential.

Menashe

a film directed by Joshua Z. Weinstein

Srugim

a television series created by Laizy Shapiro and Havvah Deevon

October 26, 2017 issue