Confronting & Celebrating the Limits of the Body: Black Sabbath Live at Villa Park
The Quietus
Publication Date: July 9, 2025
Theme: Metal Music and Culture
Category: Journalism and essays, Music reviews
Writings
Here you can find a record of almost all my publications – from scholarly journal articles to newspaper articles – listed with the most recent first. In most cases there is either a downloadable pdf or a link to the publication itself. You can search by publication type (academic, non-academic, book reviews etc), by theme and by keyword. Enjoy!
Why should Jews serve any purpose?
K. Jews, Europe and the XX1st Century
Keith Kahn-Harris, author of Everyday Jews: Why the Jewish people are not who you think they are, questions, with a hint of provocation, this strange and alienating Jewish tendency to want to make themselves indispensable to the world. What if the best response to antisemitism was ultimately to claim the right to frivolity, to allow oneself a perfectly superfluous existence?
[French and Italian translations also available]
[French and Italian translat
Publication Date: July 3, 2025
Theme: Jews, Judaism and Jewishness
Category: Journalism and essays
Are Sleep Token Really ‘Metal’?
ArtReview
And given how innovation works in culture today, does it even matter if they are?
Publication Date: June 30, 2025
Theme: Metal Music and Culture
Category: Journalism and essays
What it means to “speak out” about atrocities
Prospect
Posting Pastor Niemöller’s “First they came for…” on Facebook doesn’t make you Pastor Niemöller
Publication Date: June 23, 2025
Theme: Israel/Palestine, Politics
Category: Journalism and essays
Chopping Onions on My Heart by Samantha Ellis review – can you save a culture?
The Guardian
A woman tries to cling on to her parent’s Judeo-Arabic language – and the food, feeling and history that goes with it
Publication Date: April 19, 2025
Theme: Jews, Judaism and Jewishness
Category: Book reviews
Unconscious misrepresentation: why are we downplaying everyday Jewish life?
Jewish News
'Can we ever be ordinary and insignificant?' asks sociologist Keith Kahn-Harris
Publication Date: March 23, 2025
Theme: Jews, Judaism and Jewishness
Category: Journalism and essays
Why This Sociologist Thinks Jews Should Stop Seeking Exceptionalism and Start Being Boring
Haaretz (English edition)
English writer and sociologist Keith Kahn-Harris is concerned that Jews' prominence in the world is turning them into a target - but not in the way you think. In his new book, 'Everyday Jews,' he battles for the right of his people to experience ordinary life
Publication Date: March 22, 2025
Theme: Jews, Judaism and Jewishness
Category: Interviews
The Humble Beauty of Britain’s Synagogues
Unseen Histories
Keith Khan-Harris finds meaning in the lives of everyday Jews
Publication Date: March 17, 2025
Theme: Jews, Judaism and Jewishness
Category: Journalism and essays
קית קהאן האריס משוכנע שהנוכחות הבולטת של היהודים בעולם הפכה אותם למטרה
Haaretz [Hebrew edition]
Interview
Publication Date: March 16, 2025
Theme: Israel/Palestine, Jews, Judaism and Jewishness
Category: Interviews
Solidarity splinters
New Humanist
Opposing ideas about antisemitism threaten to split the anti-racist movement. A new book seeks to bridge the divides
[Review of Rachel Shabi's 'Off-White']
Publication Date: Spring 2025
Theme: Antisemitism, Racism, Hate
Category: Book reviews, Journalism and essays
Why aren’t Jews allowed to just be be ordinary?
Jewish Chronicle
Publication Date: March 5, 2025
Theme: Jews, Judaism and Jewishness
Category: Journalism and essays
Warriors of the Wasteland: How Heavy Metal Survived 1995
The Quietus
30 years on, Keith Kahn-Harris tries to make sense of one of metal's most confusing years and considers what actually makes a genre
Publication Date: March 4, 2025
Theme: Metal Music and Culture
Category: Journalism and essays, Music reviews
Interview: Keith Kahn-Harris on the importance of the ordinary
Varsity
Ethan Cain speaks to Keith Kahn-Harris about how the unremarked-upon aspects of communities and cultures can be the most important
Publication Date: March 4, 2025
Theme: Jews, Judaism and Jewishness, Small worlds
Category: Interviews
The lonely position of Peter Beinart
Prospect
Or is it? For all his hard truths, the US commentator can’t avoid joining others in giving Israel-Palestine more significance than it warrants
Publication Date: January 29, 2025
Theme: Antisemitism, Racism, Hate, Israel/Palestine, Jews, Judaism and Jewishness
Category: Book reviews
This is how we fight antisemitism
Prospect
Jews and other minorities must unite against racism, but this will require cynicism—and a strong stomach
Publication Date: January 20, 2025
Theme: Antisemitism, Racism, Hate
Category: Journalism and essays
‘Not nice boys’: how the Black Panthers shook up Israeli society
Jewish Renaissance
Asaf Elia-Shalev's recent book reveals the startling impact of the Black Panther movement on Israel after the Six-Day War. Keith Kahn-Harris speaks to the author about the legacy of these unlikely activists.
Publication Date: Autumn 2024
Theme: Israel/Palestine
Category: Book reviews, Journalism and essays
Total Fucking Amnesia: Silverfish Interviewed
The Quietus
At the start of the 90s the astounding noise rock band Silverfish were everywhere – their shows nearly as ubiquitous as their Hips Tits Lips Power T-shirts – but since then they seem to have fallen irrevocably (and unfairly) down the memory hole. Keith Kahn-Harris catches up with band members today and asks: What happened?
Publication Date: April 15, 2024
Theme: Music
Category: Journalism and essays
The Rothschilds, the internet and the new-old conspiracy
Prospect
Centuries-old myths about Jewish people are becoming even more outlandish in the age of social media. Space lasers, anyone?
Publication Date: April 2024 issues
Theme: Antisemitism, Racism, Hate, Denial, Ignorance and Stupidity
Category: Book reviews, Journalism and essays