I'm a senior editor at Jewish Currents and a writer of fiction, criticism, and essays. My work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, The New York Times Book Review, The Nation, Bookforum, The Baffler, and other publications. I live in Minneapolis with my wife, our dogs, and our twin preschoolers.

To pitch me at Jewish Currents: nathan@jewishcurrents.org
For other inquiries: ngoldman42@gmail.com

selected Writing

Fiction

“The Guts” / Triangle House Review
“The Octopus” / Protocols
"Kids" / Pithead Chapel

Criticism & Essays

“The Nothing Letters” (with Claire Schwartz) / Jewish Currents
”The Errant Mind of a Depressed Economist” / The New Yorker
”Love Songs: ‘Slow Show’” / The Paris Review
”Sex, Violence and Ecstasy: Leonard Cohen’s Early Fiction” / The New York Times Book Review
“Bear Witness” / The Baffler
”That Joke Isn’t Funny Anymore” / Jewish Currents
”Space Jams” / Bookforum
“Far from the Maddening Crowd” / The Baffler
“Kafka in Pieces” / The Baffler
“The Sound of Messianic Time” / Jewish Currents
“Taking Care” (with Claire Schwartz) / Jewish Currents
“Morbid Pleasures” / Lapham’s Quarterly
“I’m Fed Up!” / Bookforum
“Can’t Keep a Dead Man Down” / Poetry Foundation
“Angry Young Men” / The Baffler
“Kaddish for David Berman” (with Arielle Angel) / Jewish Currents
”David Berman’s Parting Gift” / The Nation
“Dasa Drndic Dives into the Abyss of History” / The Nation
“Neither Comic nor Profound: The Vagaries of ‘kaddish.com’” / The Nation
“Sheila Heti’s Talmudic Texts” / Los Angeles Review of Books