Nathan Goldman Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
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Nathan Goldman is the managing editor at Jewish Currents. writer // managing editor @jewishcurrents

Rest Is Resistance: A Manifesto
Tricia Hersey
now online from the Rest issue of @JewishCurrents: @helenbetya's interesting and even-handed treatment of Tricia Hersey's Rest Is Resistance https://t.co/sKITyooJ3a
Hardcover, 2022
$28.00$14.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Exteriors
Annie Ernaux
“In songs one remains locked in desire.” Annie Ernaux’s Exteriors (trans. Tanya Leslie) https://t.co/jMIxGZ7SqN
Paperback, 2021
$11.95$5.97 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Communal Luxury: The Political Imaginary of the Paris Commune
Kristin Ross
Kristin Ross’s Communal Luxury: The Political Imaginary of the Paris Commune, on Napoléon Gaillard’s “The Art of the Shoe” https://t.co/s8xjPi3yvo
Paperback, 2016
$19.95$9.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Right to Be Lazy: And Other Writings
Paul Lafargue
had so much fun working with @CharlieTyson1 on this piece from the Rest issue of @JewishCurrents on The Right to Be Lazy, a riotous 1883 polemic by Paul Lafargue, Marx's son-in-law and "the bad boy of French Marxism": https://t.co/XapTh2p5d8
Paperback, 2022
$15.95$7.97 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Netanyahus: An Account of a Minor and Ultimately Even Negligible Episode in the History of a Very Famous Family
Joshua Cohen
last night @JewishCurrents won 15 awards from the American Jewish Press Association! proud to say that we took the top slots the magazine criticism category. I won first place for my review of Joshua Cohen's The Netanyahus: https://t.co/8yHAvJZJmC
Paperback, 2021
$17.95$8.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present
Dara Horn
From the Summer issue of @JewishCurrents: @lindakinstler on Dara Horn's People Love Dead Jews and David Baddiel's Jews Don't Count, which "[model] how to stay stuck in a performance of pain": https://t.co/oTSigSlLzq
Paperback, 2022
$17.95$8.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Civil Service: Poems
Claire Schwartz
the two best new books I've read this year are Claire Schwartz's Civil Service and Solmaz Sharif's Customs, so it is such a pleasure to read one of these great poets on the other, in this phenomenal piece on art and readership under empire: https://t.co/IRJxRF96hI
Paperback, 2022
$16.00$8.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Woman Who Killed the Fish
Clarice Lispector
Clarice Lispector’s “The Mystery of the Thinking Rabbit” (trans. Benjamin Moser), from The Woman Who Killed the Fish, a collection of children’s stories out from @NewDirections in August https://t.co/ADciGKgZ4E
Hardcover, 2022
$17.95$8.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Customs
Alia Croley
the two best new books I've read this year are Claire Schwartz's Civil Service and Solmaz Sharif's Customs, so it is such a pleasure to read one of these great poets on the other, in this phenomenal piece on art and readership under empire: https://t.co/IRJxRF96hI
Paperback, 2021
$9.99$4.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Guest Lecture
Martin Riker
For @NewYorker, I wrote about Martin Riker's The Guest Lecture and the ways novels of the solipsistic self can turn toward the world. https://t.co/rvxYd7Yknd
Paperback, 2023
$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book