
Adam Kirsch
Author · 15 books
Adam Kirsch is the author of two collections of poems and several books of poetry criticism. A senior editor at the New Republic and a columnist for Tablet, he also writes for The New Yorker and the New York Review of Books. He lives in New York City with his wife and son.
Series
Books

Rocket and Lightship
Essays on Literature and Ideas
2014

The Global Novel
Writing the World in the 21st Century
2017

Poetry Magazine August 2004
2004

The Thousand Wells
Poems
2002

Come and Hear
What I Saw in My Seven-and-a-Half-Year Journey through the Talmud
2021

The Wounded Surgeon
Confession and Transformation in Six American Poets
2005

The Modern Element
Essays on Contemporary Poetry
2008

Emblems of the Passing World
Poems after Photographs by August Sander
2015

The Revolt Against Humanity
Imagining a Future Without Us
2023

The People and the Books
18 Classics of Jewish Literature
2016

Invasions
New Poems
2008

Why Trilling Matters
2011

On Settler Colonialism
Ideology, Violence, and Justice
2024

Benjamin Disraeli
2008

The Blessing and the Curse
The Jewish People and Their Books in the Twentieth Century
2020