David Stromberg
Writer, translator, and literary investigator.
A Short Inquiry into the End of the World
The Massachusetts Review · September 11, 2021
Mister Investigator follows a trail through literature, art, and history, asking how others have faced what seemed like the end of their world. Along the way, Auden, Akhmatova, and Rothko become companions in thinking about despair—and how to live with it.
A Jew in Israel: To Stay or to Leave?
Salmagundi · Spring–Summer 2026
In October, the fighting with Hamas largely stopped. Gaza was demolished and its people were thrown back into the claws of its indigenous overlords. Israel was reeling from two years of war and a government that had long prepared its continuing assault on civil society.
A Window in the Night by Isaac Bashevis Singer
The Sewanee Review · Spring 2025
At ten fifteen, Miss Lombard entered the five-story furnished apartment building. She’d arrived in a taxi and was carrying two suitcases.
