The Common Good

Jesse Nathan

Jesse Nathan is a writer and photographer from Berkeley, California, an associate editor at McSweeney’s, and a contributing editor for Geez. He and Walter Ratliff of the Associated Press are producing a documentary about the Great Trek and the 2007 re-trace journey, due out in October 2008.

Articles by Jesse Nathan

Last Autumn Song
September 1, 2010

No, nothing,

she says, that is not God’s, and we approach
a crow ripping the entrails

of a truck-crushed fox, and the crow flees

'Through the Desert Goes Our Journey'
July 1, 2008

In the 1880s, Russian Mennonites trekked to Uzbekistan, where they believed Jesus would inaugurate his kingdom. As modern-day researchers look for traces of this apocalyptic group, they find signs of coexistence with Muslims that are healing and hopeful.