JENNIFER R. BERNSTEIN
is a writer and journalist living in Massachusetts with her husband and many dogs. She's also lived in New York and Seattle.
She has written essays and criticism for The New Republic, The Nation, LARB, LitHub, Brooklyn Magazine, Pacific Standard, Hazlitt, MEL, Hyperallergic, Ploughshares, Electric Literature, and elsewhere. She is interested in literature, the arts, place and space, sex and gender, medicine and healthcare, and the beautiful game, among other subjects.
She is also a cofounder and former editor of The New Inquiry.
You can contact her at jennifer.r.bernstein [at] gmail.com, or find her on Twitter and Instagram.
SELECTED WORK
BOOKS / ARTS
Edith Wharton's Ghosts (February 16, 2022) / Boston Review
Beauford Delaney and James Baldwin: Through the Strange Door (March 12, 2020) / Burnaway
The Summer Book You Should Read in Winter (February 25, 2020) / Electric Literature
The Stories We Don't Need to Hear About Doctors and the Ones We Do (February 6, 2020) / The Nation
Aponte Forever: "Art and Black Freedom" in Nashville (January 24, 2020) / Burnaway
Andre Aciman's Dance to the Music of Time (December 5, 2019) / The New Republic
In Search of Absence in Antarctica (June 19, 2019) / Hazlitt
A Meditation on the Ineffable Grandeur of Churches (April 26, 2017) / Hyperallergic
On the Enduring Appeal of the Bildungsroman (March 8, 2017) / Ploughshares
People of the Book: Jewish Lessons in Reading (December 6, 2016) / Ploughshares
Moments in the Rose-Garden: The Literature of Stillness (October 18, 2016) / Ploughshares
The Poetics of Madness: Reading and Writing Mental Illness (September 15, 2016) / Ploughshares
Go West, Young Man: America and the Literature of Place (August 23, 2016) / Ploughshares
A Better Way of Talking About Beauty (August 19, 2016) / Pacific Standard
Readers in Exile: The Elsewheres of Andre Aciman (July 26, 2016) / Ploughshares
Between Eternity and Time (June 24, 2016) / The Los Angeles Review of Books
Why Literature Needs Psychology (May 2, 2016) / Literary Hub
What if Seattle Is Just Not a World Class City of Literature? (February 1, 2016) / The Stranger
A Cruel Mistress (August 24, 2015) / The Seattle Review of Books
Harry Potter, Teen Idol (July 2011) / The Daily
Lady Gaga: Fame Over (April 2010) / PopMatters
Nonsense and New Sensibility / The New Inquiry
Reading and the Pleasures of Domination / The New Inquiry
Writing About the Past and the Trick of Memory / The New Inquiry
Therapy and the Idea of the Love Cure / The New Inquiry
Inquiring Minds / The New Inquiry
MEDICINE / HEALTHCARE
Private Insurance Hurts Pharmacists, Too (March 25, 2020) / The Nation
Tennessee's Chemical Castration Bill Shows Local Republicans Have One Thing on Their Minds (January 29, 2020) / The Nation
What DNR Really Means (January 7, 2020) / Considerable
Tennessee Is a Guinea Pig for Frightening New Medicaid Experiments (November 5, 2019) / The Nation
Washington's Struggling Medical Residents Need a Raise (October 9, 2019) / The Nation
Resident Wellness Is a Lie: Part 1 (February 18, 2019) / In-House
The Everyday Magic of Scrubs (June 13, 2017) / Racked
The Surgical Resident Life (January 17, 2017) / Catapult
SELF / CULTURE
I Only Felt at Home Once My Home Disappeared (May 14, 2020) / Curbed
How to Celebrate Passover During a Pandemic (April 3, 2020) / BuzzFeed Reader
First the Tornado Hit--Then the Coronavirus (March 17, 2020) / BuzzFeed Reader
The Best $29.95 I Ever Spent: A Lumbar Pillow (March 17, 2020) / The Goods by Vox
Essential Gear for a Cruise to Antarctica (March 15, 2020) / Input Magazine
Your Boss Is Not Your Friend (January 14, 2020) / Forge
What Does an Engagement Ring Really Mean? (July 3, 2019) / The Goods by Vox
A Cigar on the Roof with You (June 25, 2019) / Gay Magazine
Notes on the Psychodrama at Arsenal (March 27, 2017) / Eephus Magazine
How Do We Learn to Forgive Our Fathers? (December 13, 2016) / MEL Magazine
The Life of the Party (October 31, 2016) / Essentialist
Welcome to League D (June 2, 2016) / Eephus Magazine
I Was Wrong (April 15, 2016) / Brooklyn Magazine
00CC33 (March 18, 2016) / WebSafe2k16
The Best Time I Called in to a Radio Advice Show (March 2012) / The Hairpin
SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS
2019. Opioid-Free Anesthesia for Open-Heart Surgery Using Pectoral Fascia Blocks: A 19-Patient Case Series. Poster presented at ASRA: April 12, 2019; Las Vegas, NV.