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Nathan Goldman is the managing editor at Jewish Currents. writer // managing editor @jewishcurrents

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Book Cover for: Rest Is Resistance: A Manifesto, Tricia Hersey

Rest Is Resistance: A Manifesto

Tricia Hersey
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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
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Book Cover for: Exteriors, Annie Ernaux

Exteriors

Annie Ernaux
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“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
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Book Cover for: Communal Luxury: The Political Imaginary of the Paris Commune, Kristin Ross

Communal Luxury: The Political Imaginary of the Paris Commune

Kristin Ross
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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
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Book Cover for: The Right to Be Lazy: And Other Writings, Paul Lafargue

The Right to Be Lazy: And Other Writings

Paul Lafargue
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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
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Book Cover for: The Netanyahus: An Account of a Minor and Ultimately Even Negligible Episode in the History of a Very Famous Family, Joshua Cohen

The Netanyahus: An Account of a Minor and Ultimately Even Negligible Episode in the History of a Very Famous Family

Joshua Cohen
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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
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Book Cover for: People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present, Dara Horn

People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present

Dara Horn
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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
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Book Cover for: Civil Service: Poems, Claire Schwartz

Civil Service: Poems

Claire Schwartz
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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
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Book Cover for: The Woman Who Killed the Fish, Clarice Lispector

The Woman Who Killed the Fish

Clarice Lispector
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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
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Customs

Alia Croley
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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
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Book Cover for: The Guest Lecture, Martin Riker

The Guest Lecture

Martin Riker
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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
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