Nathan Englander

Nathan Englander is a fiction writer and playwright. His most recent play is What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank. He is Distinguished Writer-in-Residence at New York University.
Detail of photographer Alfred Stieglitz’s “Window: Wood, Glass, Snow,” a 1923 photo depicting a grilled window, snowed over

What Are We Doing, What Have We Done

Nathan Englander
December 15, 2025