Zhanna Slor
By Zhanna Slor
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Culture J.D. Vance’s ‘Hillbilly Elegy’: A Jewish defense
Ron Howard's adaptation of J.D. Vance's book has been widely derided as poverty porn, but a Jewish reading yields something far-more nuanced
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Culture In ‘Raised by Wolves,’ a warning about our pandemic isolation
In HBO’s timely new dystopian drama, “Raised by Wolves,” two human-like robots are raising a small group of children on a distant, unforgiving planet. The show’s release happened to coincide with a worldwide pandemic, and, in many ways, its little nuclear family trying to survive now represents all of us. Without large gatherings or extensive…
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Culture What’s the deal with all these motherless Disney princesses?
Perhaps it is because I am a mother now, or because I lost my own mother too soon, that I am a tad sensitive to a lack of maternal characters in television and film. But plunging head-first into Disney princesses as soon as my daughter was old enough to watch cartoons, I began to notice…
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Culture Why Russia’s most popular cartoon is strangely relevant now
I waited a long time — though not as long as I’d planned — before I let my daughter watch any sort of television; when I did, I knew her first cartoon had to be “Ny Pogodi,” the strange Roadrunner-esque cartoon that I and so many millions of Russian children grew up on in the…
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