Talya Zax is the Forward’s opinion editor. Contact her at [email protected] or on Twitter, @TalyaZax.
Talya ZaxOpinion Editor
By Talya Zax
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Culture The 14 New Books You Should Be Reading This Fall
Cooler mornings; stray, amber-tinged leaves drifting romantically toward the sidewalk; a host of newspaper cartoons mocking an imminent flood of pumpkin-spiced baked goods and beverages — it must be fall! Call us biased, but we’ve always felt that the best way to celebrate autumn’s coziness is to curl up with a good book. Luckily, some…
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The Schmooze Ophira Eisenberg and The New Yorker’s Emily Flake Bring Parenting Humor To Brooklyn
On a recent summer Thursday, the cramped basement performance space of Brooklyn’s Union Hall filled with groups of friends, couples on dates, and a few loners who gave the impression they were there every night. It was about the crowd you’d expect at a night of standup comedy, which New Yorker cartoonist Emily Flake, as…
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The Schmooze 2016 Man Booker Prize Finalists Include Deborah Levy and Paul Beatty
The shortlist for the 2016 Man Booker Prize includes Jewish novelist Deborah Levy’s “Hot Milk” and Paul Beatty’s “The Sellout,” a novel that prompted the Forward’s Adam Langer to wonder whether its author might be the new Philip Roth. The other titles to make the shortlist, drawn from the longlist released in July, are Graeme…
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The Schmooze 5 Ways to Remember Alexis Arquette, Actress and Transgender Advocate
Alexis Arquette, the actress and transgender rights activist, passed away on September 11th. She was 47 years old. A statement on her brother Richmond’s Facebook page, written by their sister Patricia, said Arquette’s death came at the end of a long illness, and that she passed away surrounded by her brothers and sisters, listening to…
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The Schmooze Crazy Ex-Girlfriend Season 2 Looks, Well, Crazy
When it debuted last October, the CW’s “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend” quickly established itself as one of the wackiest, most innovative, most Jewish TV shows of the season. The first peek at season 2 was released by the CW earlier today; and since it features star Rachel Bloom dressed as, among other things, a cactus and a…
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The Schmooze Streisand To Spearhead Ground Zero Performing Arts Center
In 2003, when architect Daniel Libeskind created a plan for the redevelopment of Ground Zero, he included a performing arts center. That project has been one of the few unrealized in the site’s redevelopment, but it won’t remain so for long. On Thursday, officials revealed a new plan for the center, which they hope will…
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Culture On 15th Anniversary Of 9/11, Sculptor Shows City In Mourning
'I think when anyone ever grieves or thinks they think in their own vocabulary'
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The Schmooze Barbra Streisand Tops The Charts — Again
Barbra Streisand has done it again: her new album “Encores: Movie Partners Sing Broadway,” debuted at number 1 on the Billboard 200 Chart. The album, released on August 26th, is Streisand’s 11th to take the number 1 slot. It also makes her the only artist to have had number 1 albums in each of the…
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