PARTLY STRONG, PARTLY BROKEN (2026) is Nathaniel Popkin’s fourth novel and eighth book. He is also the co-editor of the anthology Who Will Speak for America? (2018). In the novels The Year of the Return (2019) and Everything Is Borrowed (2018) and in the book-length essay To Reach the Spring (2020), Popkin examines intersections of Jewish ideals and lived realities. Formerly a writer of criticism for the Wall Street Journal, Kenyon Review, Public Books, and Cleaver Magazine, among other publications, Popkin’s essays have appeared in the New York Times, Tablet, and Gulf Coast. As an American urban historian, Popkin has been a significant voice on the past, present, and future of his home city of Philadelphia, where he is co-founder, with Peter Woodall, of the public history website Hidden City and co-author of two Hidden City books, Finding the Hidden City (2017) and the forthcoming Philadelphia In Color 1950-1990 (2026). He is a producer and writer of multiple Emmy Award winning history documentaries, including Philadelphia: The Great Experiment (2011-2019), Sisters in Freedom (2018), and the ten-part series, In Pursuit: Philadelphia and the Making of America (2026). His studio, You’ll Never Forget Productions, co-founded with director Andrew Ferrett, is producing the nine-part series, For the Common Good: The Woman Who Shaped the Nation (2026).