Susie Linfield

Susie Linfield teaches cultural criticism at New York University. She is the author of The Cruel Radiance: Photography and Political Violence and The Lions’ Den: Zionism and the Left from Hannah Arendt to Noam Chomsky. (May 2024)

What’s in a Face?

The longstanding obsession with Jewish looks has always been essentially political—and never more so than now.

What Does a Jew Look Like?

by Keith Kahn-Harris and Robert Stothard, with a foreword by Stephen Bush

צלם משוטט [Wandering Photographer]

by David Serry

May 9, 2024 issue

Israel’s Origins and Revolutions: An Exchange

October 19, 2023 issue

How Do Whispers Become Movements?

A new history of conversation focuses not on the revolutionary moment but on the antecedents of transformative political change.

The Quiet Before: On the Unexpected Origins of Radical Ideas

by Gal Beckerman

May 26, 2022 issue

Syria’s Torture Photos: Witness to Atrocity

While documentation of war crimes is still vital, the classic function of photography is now sorely tested.

February 9, 2019

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