still thinking, and will be for some time, about adania shibli Jewish Currents live yesterday - “we write in order not to become monsters”

19th century hand illustrations

this is what i’ve always imagined thoughts look like when you’re sick

"Faith, or skepticism toward it, is more than a matter of content for these films—it informs their cinematic sensibilities..." Madeleine Wulfahrt writes on two recent Jewish American films: Nathan Silver's BETWEEN THE TEMPLES and Jesse Eisenberg's A REAL PAIN. mubi.com/en/notebook/po…

Recently on Notebook: 🔹Madeleine Wulfahrt on Nathan Silver's BETWEEN THE TEMPLES and Jesse Eisenberg's A REAL PAIN, David Schwartz on photographer Robert Frank’s little-known films, Leonardo Goi on the response to Francis Ford Coppola’s MEGALOPOLIS, Kat Sachs on Carrie

"They are like-minded, bittersweet calls to reappraise the complex joy of Jewish family, but they are perhaps more illuminating for the divergent ways in which they explore questions of Jewish belonging. [Nathan] Silver has created a surprising, revelatory work of Jewish American

i had the chance to write about orhan pamuk for The TLS a few weeks ago - it was a joy to revisit the work and diaries of one of my favourite writers the-tls.co.uk/regular-featur…

can confirm this happened again at tonight’s screening - never seen anything like it

"Finding parallels with contemporary writers such as Clairo, Sheila Heti and Charli XCX, Madeleine Wulfahrt argues that Godard’s Anna Karina-led tale of fertility and female objectification resonates now more than ever." A WOMAN IS A WOMAN opens tmrw! 💘 a-rabbitsfoot.com/editorial/film…

to coincide with Film Forum’s new restoration of ‘une femme est une femme,’ i wrote about anna karina, egg harvesting, charli xcx and more A Rabbit’s Foot 🐇 a-rabbitsfoot.com/editorial/film…

for Literary Hub i wrote about Garth Greenwell's 'small rain,' how medical experience teaches us to love, and my book in progress 🤍 lithub.com/on-writing-the…

such a joy to be read in conversation with ‘small rain’ by Garth Greenwell himself 💭💭

"After recovery, the self remains altered – even if only in the self-knowledge it has acquired through its estrangement." Madeleine Wulfahrt on Eliza Barry Callahan’s “The Hearing Test” clereviewofbooks.com/writing/eliza-…

some professional news 📝 i’m thrilled to share that i’m joining the new yorker as a full-time member of their editorial staff ! i start today as a fact checker in the magazine’s research department 🔍

my essay on edward yang’s breathtaking family epic for A Rabbit’s Foot 🕊️ published a couple of months ago to coincide with BFI’s yang retrospective 📽️ a-rabbitsfoot.com/editorial/film…

Great to see the revived Eclipse series from Criterion Collection starting with Kiarostami's early films, which were revelations when IFC Center showed them in 2019: newyorker.com/culture/the-fr…