Credit: Pete Kiehart
I am a Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows, where I am working on my next book, a history of “oblivion” as a legal and political concept (under contract with Liveright and Bloomsbury). I am also a contributing writer at The New York Times Magazine, where I cover ideas, and a non-resident fellow at the Kennan Institute.
My first book, Come to this Court and Cry, won the 2023 Whiting Award in Nonfiction and was shortlisted for the Wingate Prize for Jewish literature. I was also a 2023 finalist for the Kukula Award for Excellence in Nonfiction Book Reviewing, and my reporting for Jewish Currents has been honored by the American Jewish Press Association’s Rockower Awards.
My reporting has been cited in submissions to the ICJ and has inspired documentaries. My essay, “The Olive Branch of Oblivion,” a preview of the book to come, was selected for The Best American Essays 2025. Other reporting and criticism appears in the London Review of Books, The New York Review of Books, The Atlantic, The Guardian, The Economist, and elsewhere.
I received my Ph.D. from the Department of Rhetoric at U.C. Berkeley in August 2023 and previously studied at Cambridge and Goldsmiths, University of London, as a Marshall Scholar.
Academic email: lkinstler [at] fas [dot] harvard [edu]
Rights: georgina [at] georginacapel [dot] com
Everything else: lindkinst [at] gmail [dot] com