An independent, ad-free leftist magazine of critical essays, poetry, fiction, and art.

Joshua Gutterman Tranen is a writer based in Durham, North Carolina. His essays have appeared in The Nation, Boston Review, Los Angeles Review of Books, Guernica, and the Poetry Project.
  • There is Only Shame

    There is Only Shame

    The new book from Peter Beinart, “Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza,” is reviewed by Joshua Gutterman Tranen. “The truth that Beinart cannot face is that there is no prize to be won here, no silver lining to the thousands of Palestinians blown to pieces by Israeli-American bombs. There is only shame.”