Charlie Bertsch

Charlie Bertsch is Zeek's Music Editor. Previously, he was Music Editor at Tikkun. His work has appeared in The Oxford American, Punk Planet, the New Times weeklies and other publications, including the pioneering internet publication Bad Subjects: Political Education For Everyday Life, which he helped to found back in 1993. He has taught literature, film and cultural theory at the University of California-Berkeley, the University of Arizona and Arizona State University. At present, he is working on two book projects, one that considers the fate of cultural criticism in the era of social networking and another that examines the "documentary impulse" in film and literature since Modernism.

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Mexico as Gaza

There’s always something tricky about analogies. They are supposed to get you closer to the…

The Sounds of Jewish Iraq

Heard out of context, the music collected on this intriguing record might seem easy to…

I Sent My Daughter To Summer Camp at the JCC and She Came Back With an Uzi in Her Head

Our daughter was strangely quiet. Her words usually flow like snowmelt slashing through a canyon.…

Another Israeli Masculinity

There’s this guy you keep seeing around. He favors muscle shirts and cut-offs, even when…

Review: Steinski’s What Does It All Mean?

The issues of our age are increasingly reissues. Many people would rather purchase their pasts…