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‘Let Us Not Hurry to Our Doom’

The first Lebanon War helped lay the groundwork for Israel’s escalations of violence in Gaza. Who will heed its warnings?

November 9, 2023

An Open Letter on the Misuse of Holocaust Memory

Appealing to the memory of the Holocaust obscures our understanding of the antisemitism Jews face today and dangerously misrepresents the causes of violence in Israel-Palestine.

November 20, 2023

Gaza Without Pretenses

For years Israel and Hamas maintained an unstable equilibrium that kept the Gaza Strip contained. But it was always likely to be temporary.  

October 11, 2023

Israel: The Left in Peril

Since October 7, Israel’s left has encountered unprecedented repression. Could its ideas nonetheless point the way forward?

November 12, 2023

Déjà Vu in Israel

The conceptual system that has dominated Israeli thinking and policy for decades has been exposed, repeatedly, as dangerous and delusional.

October 11, 2023

Biden’s Selective Outrage

The rhetorical choice to pair Israel and Ukraine has not created a common moral cause. It has exposed a double standard.

November 14, 2023

Germany on Edge

In recent weeks, Germany’s reflexive defenses of Israel and suppression of its critics have assumed a fevered pitch. 

November 3, 2023

Gaza’s Blocked Relief

By restricting aid into Gaza, Israel is reducing food and fuel supplies to far below the “humanitarian minimum” its own officials set years ago.

October 30, 2023

The Many and the Few

Israel’s own pre-statehood history illustrates the dangers of distinguishing between “civilized” and “barbarous” peoples.

October 21, 2023

Gaza: The Cost of Escalation

The consequences of the US’s vengeful reaction to September 11 should remind us of the risks of responding to violence with greater violence. 

October 18, 2023

An Open Letter from Participants in the Palestine Festival of Literature

We call for the international community to commit to ending the catastrophe unfolding in Gaza and to finally pursuing a comprehensive and just political solution in Palestine.

October 14, 2023

Nowhere to Go in Gaza

Today’s evacuation order from the Israeli military directed over a million Gazan civilians to abandon their homes with no safe passage.

October 13, 2023

Meaning It

Good sex writing embraces the moral difficulty of not knowing.

October 22, 2023

The Revolution Within the American Revolution

Supported and largely led by slaveholders, the American Revolution was also, paradoxically, a profound antislavery event.

October 23, 2023

Ruffians, Gamblers, Thieves, Outcasts

Over more than two decades, the amateur historian Reşad Ekrem Koçu led an ever-expanding project to document Istanbul’s vanishing past. 

October 4, 2023

The Everyman Library

When my father died I inherited his library: tiny books, held in one hand, all bound in cloth, and smelling of Briggs tobacco.

August 27, 2023

The Crash to Come

Insurance companies have responded to climate disasters by raising premiums and dropping customers. Now there’s a new housing bubble waiting to burst.

November 11, 2023

Eight and Skate

Today’s iteration of the United Auto Workers—now on a decisive strike—is both a renewal of an old tradition and a new creation.

September 23, 2023

‘The Base of the Labor Pyramid’

Long exploited and denied basic rights, Brazil’s domestic workers continue to organize against an entitled elite.

September 17, 2023

The Long Struggle of India’s Sanitation Workers

For centuries, the caste system has forced Dalit laborers to handle human waste in deadly conditions. Now they are rising up.

August 24, 2023

Intentionality

I remember wanting to be in a band when I was nine.

October 8, 2023

Finding My Roots

The storytellers who taught me over the course of my career all knew how to bring Black history vividly to life. 

September 29, 2023

Dear Judy

Judy Blume gave voice to many of the feelings I experienced during adolescence, but there were some she didn’t name.

August 11, 2023

Love’s Work

In his films for children, Hayao Miyazaki has used the labor-intensive art of animation to study the major problem of adult life.

July 13, 2023

Jordan’s Balancing Act

In Amman, the regime is trying both to channel popular outrage over the bombardment of Gaza and to keep it in check.

November 16, 2023

Armenia’s Mortal Calculus

Having denied the Armenian genocide for decades, last month Azerbaijan launched a genocidal attack on the Nagorno-Karabakh enclave—and forced the exodus of the 120,000 Armenians who live there.

October 10, 2023

‘We Fight Today, We’ll Wrestle Tomorrow’

Imported to the capital by communities displaced in the country’s wars, wrestling has become one of Sudan’s political battlegrounds. 

September 22, 2023

The Specialist

Even as he appeals a recent money-laundering conviction, Panama’s former president has been planning a political comeback. 

September 18, 2023

Child’s Play

Sofia Coppola’s film about Priscilla Presley feels like a document less of romance than of the comforts and dangers of fantasy. 

November 18, 2023

Gorging on the Act of Looking

A series at Film Forum recovers the great 3-D wave of 1953 and the new frontiers of perception it promised.

October 29, 2023

Not All Men

The sitcom Jury Duty exploits the controversial tactics of the prank show to make us feel good about mankind.

September 5, 2023

Humorless Barbie

Greta Gerwig’s Barbie finds its comedy in the inflexibility both of plastic and of modern womanhood.

August 27, 2023

Before the Wrecking Ball Swung

A new volume of photographs taken for the Historic American Buildings Survey captures the program’s wide influence on architectural culture. 

November 9, 2023

Reverent Vulgarity

Isa Genzken’s sculptures—precision-engineered, playfully assembled, or readymade—show a winkingly subversive artist engaged in a dire Dadaist game.

October 26, 2023

The Woman Alchemist

Remedios Varo, part of the Surrealist exodus to Mexico City during World War II, transmuted her experience of exile into fantasies of cosmic unity.

October 6, 2023

Broomstrokes

The American painter Ed Clark took his medium to its limits and back again.   

October 5, 2023

Three Men and a Shark

In Ian Shaw’s play about the making of Jaws, the movie’s stars suffer crises of masculinity over long weeks at sea.

November 14, 2023

Boogie on the Higher Levels

Judee Sill made two exquisite, defiantly spiritual albums in the early 1970s. A flawed documentary attempts to reckon with her too-brief career.

October 26, 2023

From A Duel to A Duet

In Jake Heggie’s opera Dead Man Walking, newly staged at the Metropolitan Opera, a conflicted nun ministers to an inmate on death row. 

October 7, 2023

Feel-Ins, Know-Ins, Be-Ins

A newly reissued recording proves that the late saxophonist Pharoah Sanders could get the grandest of effects from the humblest of riffs. 

September 19, 2023

Dominant Orthodoxies

“So many advocates of the ‘peace process’ since the 1990s have simply ignored the structural reality that makes meaningful sovereignty and self-determination for Palestinians—the attainment of basic rights and freedoms—impossible.”

December 2, 2023

Basic Principles of Humanity

“Willfully impeding the delivery of relief supplies, in particular life-saving fuel, is a war crime.”

November 18, 2023

When the Brain Becomes Data

“Ever since we became ‘the product,’ we’ve been trading vast amounts of personal data for the privilege of engaging online.”

November 4, 2023

The Coming Fall

A dispatch from the Art Editor

September 20, 2023

Somnambulant Summer

A dispatch from the Art Editor

August 16, 2023

Ghost of a Guest

A dispatch from the Art Editor

July 19, 2023

On Planes and Boats

A dispatch from the Art Editor

June 28, 2023

What Apartheid Means for Israel

A growing consensus has formed around the term—not as a rhetorical comparison to South Africa, but describing a system of domination built on the partition of Palestine.

November 5, 2021

The Gaza I Grew Up In

Working as a photojournalist there is like walking barefoot in a field of thorns. You must always watch where you step.

November 6, 2020

A Day in the Life of Abed Salama

One man’s quest to find his son lays bare the reality of Palestinian life under Israeli rule.

March 19, 2021

Gaza vs. Liberal Zionism

Never do liberal Zionists feel more torn than when Israel is at war.

July 26, 2014