Susie Linfield

The Lions' Den offers a lively intellectual history that explores how prominent midcentury public intellectuals approached Zionism and then the State of Israel itself, including its conflicts with the Arab world. In this vibrant narrative of the political Left, cultural critic Susie Linfield investigates how eight prominent twentieth-century intellectuals struggled with the philosophy of Zionism and subsequently with Israel and...

In The Cruel Radiance, Susie Linfield challenges the idea that photographs of political violence exploit their subjects and pander to the voyeuristic tendencies of their viewers. Instead, she argues passionately that looking at such images—and learning to see the people in them—is an ethically and politically necessary act that connects us to our modern history of violence and probes the...