About Me

I'm an online editor at The New York Review of Books. Previously, I was the executive editor of Jewish Currents; before that, I spent many years as a freelance reporter and critic for magazines like The New Yorker, The Nation, The Baffler, New York, Harper’s, and Slate, among others. I began my career as a fact-checker and staff writer at The New Republic. My essays have been anthologized in The Best American Science and Nature Writing and The Opening of the American Mind: Ten Years of The Point and listed as “notable” in The Best American Essays.

You can reach me at nora.caplanbricker@gmail.com.

A Few Recent or favorite Pieces

  • No Exit: on Rachel Kushner’s Creation Lake and the power of fiction to conjure or close off a sense of possibility (Jewish Currents)

  • Time, Space, and Annie Baker: on the playwright’s debut film, Janet Planet (The Nation)

  • Reviving the Language of Empire: A conversation with Aziz Rana on revisiting the anti-imperialism of the 1960s and ’70s amid the return of left internationalism. (Jewish Currents)

  • Staging Resistance: on the novels of Isabella Hammad (Jewish Currents)

  • Days of Rest: on reconciling anti-work politics with an attachment to meaningful work, especially the work of political struggle (co-written with my colleagues at Jewish Currents)

  • Fables of Finitude: on Sheila Heti’s Pure Colour (Jewish Currents)