I’m an editor at Harper’s magazine and a contributing writer at Jewish Currents. My essays and criticism have also appeared in Bookforum, The New Republic, and The Nation, among other outlets.
To commission me: jessica.l.bergman@gmail.com
To pitch me features at Harper’s: jess@harpers.org
Selected Writing
“Indignity,” The New Republic, December 2024
“Editor in Mischief,” Bookforum, October 2024
“Home Truths,” The Nation, October 2024
“Hari Kunzru’s Escape from the Art Market,” The New Republic, July 2024
“The Workplace Novel Comes to the Big Box Store,” The New Republic, March 2024
“The Novelist Who Inspired Elena Ferrante,” The New Yorker, November 2023
“Can We Imagine Life Without Oil?” The Nation, September 2023
“Family Ties,” Jewish Currents, July 2023
“Corporate Takeover,” The New Republic, February 2023
“In Search of Self-Destruction on an Oil Rig,” The Nation, January 2022
“Survivor’s Guilt,” Jewish Currents, December 2021
“I’m Not Feeling Good at All,” The Baffler, March 2020