Madeleine Wulfahrt

Madeleine Wulfahrt is a writer and member of The New Yorker’s editorial staff. She has written about subjects as varied as the smallest movie theater in Queens and the morality of war reporting for The New Yorker, Penguin Modern Classics, MUBI Notebook, Literary Hub, The Times Literary Supplement, and elsewhere. Originally from the UK, she spent time living in Moscow, Saint Petersburg, and Warsaw between 2017 and 2022. Now based in New York, she continues to bring her cultural and linguistic knowledge to coverage of Eastern Europe.

Selected Writing

Books

Introduction to Love’s Work by Gillian Rose | Penguin Modern Classics | March 2024 [as Madeleine Pulman-Jones]

For The New Yorker

‘Vasily Grossman: The Unlikely Journalist Who Looked Into the Heart of War’ | The New Yorker | July 2026
‘How to Make a Movie House with John Wilson’ | The New Yorker | August 2025
On the films of Otar Iosseliani for ‘Goings On’ | The New Yorker | August 2026

Essays

‘On Writing the Hospital’ | Literary Hub | March 2025
‘A Real Pain Between the Temples’ | MUBI Notebook | November 2024
‘A Painter’s Life: Illustrations Arranged in Emotional Order’ review of Orhan Pamuk’s illustrated notebooks, Memories of Distant Mountains | The Times Literary Supplement | November 2024
'I'm 21 and have had chemotherapy during lockdown. I was one of the lucky ones.' | The Guardian | May 2020 [as Madeleine Pulman-Jones]

Interviews

Unasked Questions: A Conversation with Mikołaj Grynberg and his English translator, Sean Gasper Bye | Jewish Book Council | January 2025

Fiction

‘Hydra’ | Still Point | February 2025

Poetry

‘Artefact’ | Poetry Birmingham Literary Journal issue 7 | December 2021
'Embassies' and 'I catch death in birth's lining' | PN Review issue 257 | February 2021
'Precarious Weather' | The Adroit Journal | August 2020

Translation

36 Rooms, a Collection of Prose Poems by Zuzanna Baroszek (translated from the Polish) | Hela Press | Forthcoming
‘February’ by Dana Sideros (translated from the Russian) | Modern Poetry in Translation issue no. 2, 2022 | July 2022

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