About Me

I'm a journalist, essayist, and critic and the executive editor of Jewish Currents. Previously, I was a staff writer at The New Republic and a contributing writer at Slate. My writing also appears in The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, The Nation, The Baffler, Harper’s, and Ploughshares, among other places. My essays have been anthologized in The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2021 and The Opening of the American Mind: Ten Years of The Point, and listed as “notable” in The Best American Essays 2022.

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

A Few Recent Pieces

  • 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)

  • A World Inside Out: on the countercultural fiction of Katherine Dunn (The Nation)

  • 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)

Selected Older work