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Author: David Stromberg

David Stromberg is a writer, translator, and literary scholar. His fiction has appeared in The Woven Tale Press, The Account, and Call me Brackets, his nonfiction in The American Scholar, Los Angeles Review of Books, and Entropy, and his translations in The New Yorker, Conjunctions, and Asymptote. His most recent book is A Short Inquiry into the End of the World, a speculative essay in The Massachusetts Review‘s Working Titles series, and his edited collection of essays by Isaac Bashevis Singer is forthcoming from Princeton University Press.
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04/03/2023

The Smart Set — Then and Now

A nod to the namesake

by David Stromberg

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10/24/2022

When Antisemitism Happens to Good People

When antisemitism is rooted in ignorance

by David Stromberg

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09/01/2022

We Tell Stories in Order to Die

Word to death

by David Stromberg

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03/14/2022

Lacan’s Mistake

The desire of the unconscious

by David Stromberg

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