Liberties is an independent quarterly journal of ideas that publishes serious, stylish, and controversial essays.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Only free issues | Publishes | Twice weekly |
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What The Movies Make of Us: Dispatch from NYFF
Robert Rubsam relays the highs and lows of this year’s New York Film Festival in Sidebar.
Every film is a portrait of the community that made it. No artist works alone, of course. Yet even the smallest no-budget movies require dozen...
James Gray’s Terrifying Mirror
In advance of the theatrical release of Paper Tiger, Charles Taylor makes the case for why James Gray is the filmmaker who best captures the debasement of American life and values in the Trump era.
James Gray is the least heralded m...
Your Body is the Only Commandment that Remains – A War Diary
On October 7, 2023, Shlomo Efrati was called up for reserve duty as part of the Rabbinic Division’s Command for the Treatment of Casualties. He was stationed at the Civilian Casualty Collection Station, for treating bodies of civilian casua...
The Missing Israeli Conversation, or The Task of the Zionist Left
This week’s Sidebar is an essay in translation written by Yuval Yavneh and translated by Celeste Marcus. Yavneh argues that there are only two perspectives on the war in Gaza within Israel, but that neither is correct. Instead, he asserts t...
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Assistant Publisher at Liberties Journal
Flâneuse, scholar, and writer. Jennie in jammies, Dr. LG on the dotted line. Author of Blood at the Root (2011), Captive City (2025), Cosmic American Road Trip (2027), and Vigilance Lessons (soon).
Lifelong obsessive quester. I cycle through fixations; currently: artistic sensibility, Jean Rhys, unconscious thought, Icelandic place names. Published in Liberties, Electric Literature, & The Madrid Review. Forthcoming in The Philosopher.
Writer, Investigative Journalist, and Researcher at the University of Exeter. Voice for the voiceless-dedicated to documenting human rights, capturing untold suffering, and bringing deep, impactful narratives from Gaza to the world.
Writer and critic at various places.
Journalist | Author | Explorer | Iran-Japan-Fargo roots | Piano tinkerer
Author of The Master of Contradictions: Thomas Mann and the Making of The Magic Mountain (Yale University Press, 2025) and A Difficult Death: The Life and Work of Jens Peter Jacobsen (Yale University Press, 2017) European liaison, @libertiesjournal
Executive editor Liberties Journal
I'm a political theorist and writer with interests in nationalism, state-formation, political conflict, and religion, but also music, literature, film, etc.
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