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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The Schmooze The Year’s Best Books, ‘The Disaster Artist’ And More To Read, Watch And Do This Weekend
It’s been a week of big news and high tension. None of that will go away by Monday; if you hope to use the weekend to rejuvenate, do so with some of the best culture in New York, Washington D.C., Chicago and Los Angeles, as well as the week’s best movies, TV and books. 1)…
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Culture Movie News: James Franco’s Tommy Wiseau Tribute, Early Awards Season
Still nursing your Thanksgiving food coma? Can’t handle any degree of activity more strenuous than that of sitting in a movie theater? Great: This week’s new movies come out tomorrow, so today, we have this week’s movie news. 1) James Franco’s Tommy Wiseau biopic is a hit Tommy Wiseau famously created and starred in “The…
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Culture New York Times 10 Best Books Of 2017 Include Works By Naomi Alderman, Ron Chernow
Naomi Alderman’s novel “The Power” and Ron Chernow’s biography of Ulysses S. Grant, “Grant,” are among The New York Times’s 10 Best Books of 2017. Alderman’s “The Power” won this year’s Bailey’s Women’s Prize for Fiction. The Times books editors wrote that the novel was “a riveting story, told in fittingly electric language, that explores…
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Culture Playwright Israel Horovitz Accused Of Sexual Harassment, Assault By Nine Women
Playwright Israel Horovitz, the founding artistic director of Gloucester Stage Company, has been accused of sexual assault and harassment by nine women, The New York Times’s Jessica Bennett today reported. Horovitz’s accusers are all women who worked with him when they were adolescents or in their early 20s. They include the playwright Jocelyn Meinhardt, who…
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Culture Italy Tells The Story Of Its Jewish People In New Museum
“The story of Jews in Italy is really an Italian story,” Dario Disegni said one recent autumn morning at Columbia University’s Italian Academy for Advanced Studies. Disegni, president of the National Museum of Italian Judaism and the Shoah, was appearing at Columbia to discuss the museum, which is also known as MEIS, opens in Ferrara…
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Culture Movie News: ‘Call Me By Your Name,’ Barbra Streisand And Sacha Baron Cohen
In my family, movies are an essential part of Thanksgiving: Most years, my cousins in Chicago and I will go see a blockbuster on Thanksgiving morning, returning just late enough to be met by parental panic over making sure things are done on time. (Yes, we also help out.) This year I’m staying in New…
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Culture Nicole Krauss, Paul Auster Make New York Times List Of 2017’s Best Books
Novels by Nicole Krauss, Paul Auster and David Grossman are among the 100 books named to The New York Times’s 2017 list of the year’s 100 most notable books. Krauss’s “Forest Dark,” Auster’s “4 3 2 1” and Grossman’s “A Horse Walks Into a Bar,” which won this year’s Man Booker International Prize, won commendations…
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Culture Should We Give Ayn Rand A Second Chance? Tony Award-Winning Director Says Yes.
An excellent way to win the scorn of your coworkers, I have learned over the past month, is to display Ayn Rand’s “The Fountainhead” and “Atlas Shrugged” on your desk. (Yes, dear colleagues, Rand was Jewish, born as Alisa Rosenbaum in pre-revolutionary Russia. No, dear colleagues, I am not turning into an individualist psychopath, or…
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