Marisa Mazria Katz

Calling Grandma

“Rouhi yamama, you know you are my favorite.” These endearments, even when they sloshed in her mouth like the ice cubes in her drink, always made my troubles melt away.

‘Horrifying Mundanity’: An Interview with David Osit

In Mayor, his film about the official who runs Ramallah in the West Bank, the director tells a different story about Palestinian life under occupation.

An Interview with David Adjmi

David Adjmi’s newly published memoir, Lot Six, as well as his play Stunning, are testament to a rapturous ability to capture the cadence and idiosyncrasies of a group never previously brought to dramatic life in mainstream culture.

An Interview with Yevgeniya Baras

Yevgeniya Baras’s small, knotty paintings look like talismans from an alien culture. Pushing aside painting norms, she works on both sides of the canvas to slowly conceal and reveal cryptic and voluptuous iconography.

Passover 2020: A Virtual Seder

As Covid-19 took hold in New York City, I started receiving emails from the rabbi at my local shul. The barrage of newsletters cracked open my claustrophobic anxieties.

An Interview with Michael Rakowitz

Michael Rakowitz: Even though I am not what I would call a religious Jew, there are rituals, practices, and repetitions that are part of this religious background that are a great way of constantly reminding oneself of ethics and actually hoping for something better than what we have right now.

Israel’s War on Culture

Culture Minister Miri Regev embodies the sea-change in Israeli society, from a country that downplayed its inequities and declining democratic norms, to one that flaunts them.