Andre Gregory’s latest work is a memoir in the same way that “My Dinner With a Memoir” was a dinner.
“The Trial of the Chicago 7” turns out to be a passionate defense of the system its heroes are committed to overthrowing.
“You have to make sure that you are not substituting your voice and perspective for those of the people who really live these histories.”
In Wallace Shawn’s “Evening At The Talk House,” only a thin line separates characters from their audience.
‘Mr. Robot’ evokes the economic and culturally diverse reality of present-day New York City better than any art out there, in any form.
The world is a broken place — Joshua Furst explains how we need to live in it.
“Indecent,” based on controversial Sholem Asch play “God of Vengeance” has opened at the Vineyard Theater, exploring the greatest achievement and greatest failure in the history of Jewish theater. Joshua Furst weighs in.
Primo Levi’s complete works have recently been republished in a massive three-volume set overseen by master translator Ann Goldstein. Joshua Furst and Goldstein talk Levi’s relationship with his Jewishness and the difficulties of the act of translation itself.
The Jewish Museum’s “Unorthodox” exhibition comprises 55 artists from a variety of cultural backgrounds. According to Joshua Furst, it also offers a rebuke and a challenge to mainstream Jewish thought.
Jonathan Franzen’s ‘Purity’ contains some of his most powerful writing — and some of his clunkiest. Joshua Furst takes the pulse of our nation’s foremost purveyor of ‘morally serious fiction.’