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

Education & Society

Jews vs. the “Judeo-Christian Tradition”

Since the 1930s, the idea of a “Judeo-Christian tradition” has been used in American politics, but some Jews have always taken issue with the entire concept.

Science & Technology

Ghost of the Forest: Monotropa uniflora

Look for this other-worldly plant in moist, shaded areas of mature forests throughout much of North America, East Asia, and northern South America.

Verbatim: Fredric Jameson

Marxist cultural critic Fredric Jameson offered a philosophy of late capitalism that gave us a language for talking about globalization and the end of modernism.

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?

Lost Literacies Strips Down the Dawn of Comics

In his new book, literary historian Alex Beringer demonstrates how the birth of the genre of printed comic long preceded the Sunday Funny Pages.