CelesteMarcus
@celestemarcus.bsky.social
Executive editor @ Liberties Journal
wrote a biography of Chaim Soutine
wrote a biography of Chaim Soutine
Pinned
I wrote about the American Jew's unique responsibility to oppose Israeli illiberalism
Feels particularly relevant today - liberalism is the only system that Jews could trust to keep us safe. It is cratering from both ends and we are assisting in its demise.
libertiesjournal.com/articles/ame...
Feels particularly relevant today - liberalism is the only system that Jews could trust to keep us safe. It is cratering from both ends and we are assisting in its demise.
libertiesjournal.com/articles/ame...
"The American people, like the rest of the world, can see that our government has no respect for humanity. America deserves a liberal leadership that is not toothless in response to our national perversion."
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Our Liberalism: A Dispatch From Mexico
A decade ago, on the first occasion that I ever heard Leon Wieseltier speak, he uttered a phrase that I have been thinking about ever since. Leon confessed he suffered from what he called “historical ...
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November 19, 2025 at 6:27 PM
"The American people, like the rest of the world, can see that our government has no respect for humanity. America deserves a liberal leadership that is not toothless in response to our national perversion."
libertiesjournal.com/online-artic...
libertiesjournal.com/online-artic...
November 3, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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The good people at @readliberties.bsky.social let me write up the highlights and misfires of this year's NYFF: libertiesjournal.com/online-artic...
NYFF: Festival of Darkness
What a strange and uncomfortable coincidence that the New York Film Festival has programmed one of its best line-ups during one of the worst years in modern American history. Filing out of any given s...
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October 27, 2025 at 9:25 PM
The good people at @readliberties.bsky.social let me write up the highlights and misfires of this year's NYFF: libertiesjournal.com/online-artic...
Anyway you can always be listening to this
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kf_z...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kf_z...
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Jubilee Street - Live in Copenhagen
YouTube video by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
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October 15, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Anyway you can always be listening to this
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kf_z...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kf_z...
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The Israeli government prefers a weakened Hamas in a besieged Gaza, to any alternative administration (including a neo-colonial one run by Blair).
A besieged, impoverished, ruined and unstable Gaza leaves open the prospect of ethnic cleansing and occupation.
A besieged, impoverished, ruined and unstable Gaza leaves open the prospect of ethnic cleansing and occupation.
October 13, 2025 at 10:22 PM
The Israeli government prefers a weakened Hamas in a besieged Gaza, to any alternative administration (including a neo-colonial one run by Blair).
A besieged, impoverished, ruined and unstable Gaza leaves open the prospect of ethnic cleansing and occupation.
A besieged, impoverished, ruined and unstable Gaza leaves open the prospect of ethnic cleansing and occupation.
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Don’t read this for my sake—my future is all used up. Read it for Kenneth Fearing, Alfred Hayes, and Weldon Kees. They’ve still got it. libertiesjournal.com/online-artic...
Two Crooked Streets: A Proposed Genealogy of Noir Poetry
Lovers of noir are generally aware that the term was initially applied to the works of a set of US authors and filmmakers in retrospect, from afar, when the French were first granted access to films t...
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October 13, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Don’t read this for my sake—my future is all used up. Read it for Kenneth Fearing, Alfred Hayes, and Weldon Kees. They’ve still got it. libertiesjournal.com/online-artic...
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Grateful to share my new essay in Liberties Journal, “Sewn Close to Pascal’s Heart.”
A meditation on doubt, faith, and the ache of thinking deeply:
libertiesjournal.com/articles/sew...
Honored to be published alongside writers I’ve long admired.
#writing #philosophy #spirituality
A meditation on doubt, faith, and the ache of thinking deeply:
libertiesjournal.com/articles/sew...
Honored to be published alongside writers I’ve long admired.
#writing #philosophy #spirituality
October 8, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Grateful to share my new essay in Liberties Journal, “Sewn Close to Pascal’s Heart.”
A meditation on doubt, faith, and the ache of thinking deeply:
libertiesjournal.com/articles/sew...
Honored to be published alongside writers I’ve long admired.
#writing #philosophy #spirituality
A meditation on doubt, faith, and the ache of thinking deeply:
libertiesjournal.com/articles/sew...
Honored to be published alongside writers I’ve long admired.
#writing #philosophy #spirituality
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My essay, Zion, about being in Shangri-La Tibet on October 7th 2023, is now up at Liberties Journal @readliberties.
I wrote about my despair and about trying to hold on to hope. Because, really, what do we have but hope?
Read the full essay at libertiesjournal.com/online-artic...
Read the full essay at libertiesjournal.com/online-artic...
Shangri-La: October Seventh, 2023
I was in Shangri-La, in a village in the Tibetan Himalayas on October 7th, 2023. More precisely, I was in the Shangri-La tourism zone of Yunnan, a popular Chinese travel destination marketed as the “t...
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October 8, 2025 at 6:11 PM
My essay, Zion, about being in Shangri-La Tibet on October 7th 2023, is now up at Liberties Journal @readliberties.
I wrote about my despair and about trying to hold on to hope. Because, really, what do we have but hope?
Read the full essay at libertiesjournal.com/online-artic...
Read the full essay at libertiesjournal.com/online-artic...
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Here, have 6000 words on Yasunari Kawabata: libertiesjournal.com/articles/the...
The High Art of Distance - Liberties
“Art, of course, lives in history,” said Elizabeth Hardwick. By which she meant that a novel emerges in its own time, and changes in its passage to our own. This — the likeness which is also an unlike...
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October 8, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Here, have 6000 words on Yasunari Kawabata: libertiesjournal.com/articles/the...
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Yas!! 👏🏼 👏🏼👏🏼🤩❤️
Go preorder your copy!
Go preorder your copy!
September 30, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Yas!! 👏🏼 👏🏼👏🏼🤩❤️
Go preorder your copy!
Go preorder your copy!
BOOK!!!!!!!!!!!
September 30, 2025 at 7:16 PM
BOOK!!!!!!!!!!!
September 29, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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from @mortenhoijensen.bsky.social's Master of Contradictions
September 29, 2025 at 1:14 AM
from @mortenhoijensen.bsky.social's Master of Contradictions
Listen to Not A Dialogue wherever you get your podcasts
September 19, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Listen to Not A Dialogue wherever you get your podcasts
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Join Morten Høi Jensen and @celestemarcus.bsky.social on Zoom, Tuesday, September 30th at 12 PMEST/6PM CST to discuss Celeste's essay from the recent issue "The Other Obliteration: A Report from the West Bank"
September 17, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Join Morten Høi Jensen and @celestemarcus.bsky.social on Zoom, Tuesday, September 30th at 12 PMEST/6PM CST to discuss Celeste's essay from the recent issue "The Other Obliteration: A Report from the West Bank"
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Imagine viewing a child’s dreams as a threat.
The Sea, a film about a Palestinian boy who just wants to see the beach won Israel’s top film prize and will represent the country at the Oscars. So the government cut all funding from Israeli film academy.
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
The Sea, a film about a Palestinian boy who just wants to see the beach won Israel’s top film prize and will represent the country at the Oscars. So the government cut all funding from Israeli film academy.
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
Gov't says it will cut Film Academy funding after film 'depicting Israel negatively' wins
Claiming That the Film 'Defames' Israeli Soldiers, Israel's Culture Minister Announced the Withdrawal of Government Funding for the Ophir Awards After the 'Embarrassing Ceremony'. The Film, The Sea, T...
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September 17, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Imagine viewing a child’s dreams as a threat.
The Sea, a film about a Palestinian boy who just wants to see the beach won Israel’s top film prize and will represent the country at the Oscars. So the government cut all funding from Israeli film academy.
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
The Sea, a film about a Palestinian boy who just wants to see the beach won Israel’s top film prize and will represent the country at the Oscars. So the government cut all funding from Israeli film academy.
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
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We're hiring! For the full listing: libertiesjournal.com/assistant-pu...
September 7, 2025 at 4:48 PM
We're hiring! For the full listing: libertiesjournal.com/assistant-pu...
From Ihab Hassan's recent essay for @readliberties.bsky.social
September 5, 2025 at 12:03 AM
From Ihab Hassan's recent essay for @readliberties.bsky.social
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'The people of Gaza have never been in greater need of international intervention. They need help— not only from Israel, from Hamas too. Recognizing a Palestinian State is not a reward for violence; it is the conclusion of a sincere dedication to statecraft.'
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The End of Terror and the Establishment of Palestine
The Palestinians have been waiting for a state for a long time. Recognizing the State of Palestine, as several European countries have chosen to do in the recent weeks, is about much more than politic...
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September 3, 2025 at 7:07 PM
'The people of Gaza have never been in greater need of international intervention. They need help— not only from Israel, from Hamas too. Recognizing a Palestinian State is not a reward for violence; it is the conclusion of a sincere dedication to statecraft.'
libertiesjournal.com/online-artic...
libertiesjournal.com/online-artic...
"It is possible for bleeding worlds to be buried and forgotten. It is possible for hope and political prudence to fuse and forge a future worth living for, a future of hope, a future where children expect the sun to rise and set without the sounds of sirens or the sight of bludgeoned corpses."
September 3, 2025 at 3:17 AM
"It is possible for bleeding worlds to be buried and forgotten. It is possible for hope and political prudence to fuse and forge a future worth living for, a future of hope, a future where children expect the sun to rise and set without the sounds of sirens or the sight of bludgeoned corpses."