Adam Kirsch is a poet and critic whose writing appears regularly in The New Yorker, the New York Review of Books, and other publications. He is a 2016 Guggenheim Fellow and an editor at the Wall Street Journal's weekend Review section.

02/02/2026

• I.Culture as CountercultureMeaning Without MindThe False Promise of Digital HumanitiesZadie Smith and the Children of the SeventiesThe Conservative Romance of Thomas Mann and Hans PfitznerOpera, Irony and Desire II.On Not "Getting" PoetryDonne's ConfusionKeats's MortalityWordsworth's UncertaintiesShelley's RevolutionsHardy's DoubtsEliot's Animus III.After the Golden Age: American Jewish Fiction in the 21st CenturyPrimo Levi's Freedom Through WorkPhilip Roth's TransgressionsWhy Jewish History Is So Hard to WriteFreud as Talmudist IV.Nothing That Is Not There

Adam Kirsch is a poet and critic whose writing appears regularly in The New Yorker, the New York Review of Books, and other publications. He is a 2016 Guggenheim Fellow and an editor at the Wall Street Journal's weekend Review section.

02/02/2026

• I.Culture as CountercultureMeaning Without MindThe False Promise of Digital HumanitiesZadie Smith and the Children of the SeventiesThe Conservative Romance of Thomas Mann and Hans PfitznerOpera, Irony and Desire II.On Not "Getting" PoetryDonne's ConfusionKeats's MortalityWordsworth's UncertaintiesShelley's RevolutionsHardy's DoubtsEliot's Animus III.After the Golden Age: American Jewish Fiction in the 21st CenturyPrimo Levi's Freedom Through WorkPhilip Roth's TransgressionsWhy Jewish History Is So Hard to WriteFreud as Talmudist IV.Nothing That Is Not There

Adam Kirsch is a poet and critic whose writing appears regularly in The New Yorker, the New York Review of Books, and other publications. He is a 2016 Guggenheim Fellow and an editor at the Wall Street Journal's weekend Review section.

02/02/2026

• I.Culture as CountercultureMeaning Without MindThe False Promise of Digital HumanitiesZadie Smith and the Children of the SeventiesThe Conservative Romance of Thomas Mann and Hans PfitznerOpera, Irony and Desire II.On Not "Getting" PoetryDonne's ConfusionKeats's MortalityWordsworth's UncertaintiesShelley's RevolutionsHardy's DoubtsEliot's Animus III.After the Golden Age: American Jewish Fiction in the 21st CenturyPrimo Levi's Freedom Through WorkPhilip Roth's TransgressionsWhy Jewish History Is So Hard to WriteFreud as Talmudist IV.Nothing That Is Not There