Adam Langer is the Forward’s executive editor. Born and raised in Chicago, he is the author of the novels Crossing California, The Washington Story, Ellington Boulevard, The Thieves of Manhattan, The Salinger Contract and Cyclorama, as well as the memoir My Father’s Bonus March.
Adam LangerCulture Editor
By Adam Langer
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Culture Your art, your stories — a collection of the paintings and sculptures that inspire our readers
On a wall in Barbara Sander’s apartment in Sarasota, Fla., a seabird flies between two palm trees across a pinkish-orange sky. Ellen Green feels inspired by a deep forest, one she used to gaze at for hours when she was a child. Chani Miller of Highland Park, N.J. finds peace and content when she looks…
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Culture The stories behind the art on my (and your) walls
From my desk, I can see a cloudy blue sky. Below it, the Catskills in autumn — lavender mountains and an empty stretch of road beside the water. Lower down, a spoonbill contemplates the water below him. Maybe he’s looking for a fish. Some distance away, unfazed by the incongruous presence of autumn mountains and winter…
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Culture How to master the little-known art of indoor birdwatching
On my way to a museum for the first time in 15 months, I paused at the sight of something red flashing past me in the North Woods of Central Park. I squinted into a tangle of branches and dense foliage until I saw it again — black with a splotch of red, or maybe…
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Culture Why no Dylan album will ever surpass ‘Stormy Season’
When I got the text from a friend of mine, asking if I’d heard Bob Dylan’s “Rough and Rowdy Ways,” I hadn’t yet had a chance to listen to it all the way through. “Honestly, the music isn’t much,” my friend wrote. “But the lyrics are amazing.” She quoted a stanza from “Key West,” her…
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Culture Meet the winners of The Forward’s Young Writers Contest
Can we talk about something good for a change? As headlines bombard us with stories of violence and curfews set against the backdrop of an epidemic, it’s easy to lose hope. Which is why it’s been so refreshing to step away from the unrelenting daily news cycle and read the work of young writers whose…
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Culture Dana Czapnik’s Novel Is So Good You Might Want To Read It Before You Bother Reading This Interview
Right after I finished reading “The Falconer,” I wanted to talk with Dana Czapnik. Actually, that’s not quite accurate — after I finished Czapnik’s debut novel, one that immerses you so thoroughly in its characters’ milieu that, at a certain point, you feel as though you’re living the story not just reading about it, I…
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Culture Is This The Most Prescient Novel Of 2019?
Last month, when I spoke to the author, screenwriter and film director Nicholas Meyer over at LitHub about his new novel “The Adventures of the Peculiar Protocols,” we spent some time talking about how unfortunately timely the book was. Both a chilling, cautionary tale and a rip-roaring yarn that sets Sherlock Holmes on the trail…
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Culture Slaves In Egypt, Refugees In America: An Exodus Story In 8 Chapters
Amanda Morales hasn’t gone outside today. She didn’t go out yesterday or the day before, either. She is standing inside the Holyrood Episcopal Church in Manhattan’s Washington Heights, gazing out a window and waiting for her two eldest children to come home from school. Outside it’s cold and overcast, and the view isn’t much for…
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