Sagy Zwirn

Sagy Zwirn is an Israeli writer. He’s a certified lawyer and a former prosecutor with an LL.M. from Tel Aviv university. His Master’s thesis dealt with Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment.

His short stories and articles have appeared in various publications, including the “Quarterly Review”, the “Evergreen Review” and “The Smart Set”. He translated two novels into Hebrew for a large Israeli publisher and his short story “Carthage” has appeared in the “Yale Review”.

Christ's Descent into Hell by Hieronymus Bosch

Education & Society

Fire and Brimstone

If our conception of hell was absent from Christianity at the time the religion was born, whence exactly does it hail?

Editors' Picks

James Baldwin and Nikki Giovanni in Conversation

In 1971, two legends of Black letters discussed Black manhood, white racism, the role of the writer, and the responsibility to teach.

Science & Technology

Can We Build a Better Facebook?

Is it time to turn our back on Facebook? And if so, what social network could possibly replace it?

Science & Technology

The Anatomists of Ancient Alexandria

Cultural forces under the Ptolemaic dynasty briefly allowed scholars like Herophilus to practice dissection—and possibly vivisection—on human subjects.

Politics & History

The Genocide Before the Shoah

For a century, Jews in Turkey have maintained a strategic silence when it comes to recognizing the Armenian genocide. Could that be changing?

Politics & History

Wilhelm Reich: Twice Burned

A psychoanalyst and physician, Reich fled the Nazis only to be detained by the US as an “enemy alien” during World War II. And then came the sexual revolution.