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Rebecca Sonkin

Dispatch from the Diaspora

Dec 31, 2023, 12:06 AM

The Ivy League Is the Land of Many Chances

Getting a Pass on Plagiarism Isn’t Unique to Harvard and Claudine Gay. I Saw It at Columbia, Too Claudine Gay, the president of Harvard, is now a confirmed plagiarist. This, after toxic testimony on campus antisemitism at a House hearing...

Dec 21, 2023, 7:32 PM

Do Hostage Posters Imperil You?

Last week a pair of young men armed with a butterfly knife entered the neighborhood where I live to slash down the scores of hostage posters that had gone up—and mostly stayed up—since October 7. Until then, the opposition had...

Dec 13, 2023, 12:06 AM

Confessions of a Draft Dodger: Why I Can’t Stop Reading Shoah Stories Right Now

By October 8, I had reread “Maus” by Art Spiegelman. By October 15, I’d reread “The Lost” by Daniel Mendelsohn. By October 13, “An Exclusive Love” by Johanna Adorján. During dark days, this is what I do. Read stories of...

About Me

Rebecca Sonkin has published essays in The Washington Post, Tablet, Tin House, Los Angeles Review of Books, and elsewhere. She has taught writing at Columbia University, University of Michigan, and Jewish Theological Seminary where she was Writer-In-Residence. She is now Literary Lead of Families for Safe Streets, where she runs the reading group on bereavement, and is reporting a memoir about a fatal car crash.