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 Stephen Greenblatt On How The Story Of Adam And Eve Shaped History
Has there been a more consequential story to the history of humanity than that of Adam and Eve? In the assessment of Stephen Greenblatt, Shakespeare scholar and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of “The Swerve,” probably not. But for Greenblatt, the significance of the origin story of Abrahamic religions ranges past its tangibly profound impact on the…
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Culture Tenement Museum, Nostalgic For The ‘Melting Pot,’ Highlights Contemporary Inequality
1955, the Lower East Side: Eight years after immigrating to the United States, two Holocaust survivors make a home in a six-room apartment. The rooms are big enough to live in comfortably, but only just. In a bedroom decorated in bright colors, its one slit of a window looking down at a staircase, their daughter…
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Culture When Lin-Manuel Miranda Met Stephen Sondheim
What, exactly, has Stephen Sondheim contributed to musical theater? Lin-Manuel Miranda, in a profile of Sondheim penned for The New York Times Style Magazine, has an answer. “He is musical theater’s greatest lyricist, full stop,” Miranda writes. “The days of competition with other musical theater songwriters are done: We now talk about his work the…
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Culture Los Angeles Philanthropist And Arts Advocate Eli Broad Is Retiring
Los Angeles-based philanthropist Eli Broad, 84, is set to retire from the foundation that bears his name. The New York Times reported his intended retreat from the Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation, which Broad announced on Thursday. “I am retiring,” Broad told reporters Adam Nagourney and Adam Popescu. “Now. Right now. I am just tired….
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Culture Two Years After Arrest, Palestinian Poet Dareen Tatour Awaits A Verdict
On October 11, 2015, the Palestinian poet Dareen Tatour was arrested at her home in Reineh, a town in Israel’s Galilee. In November of the same year, in the second of Tatour’s three months in jail, Israeli prosecutors indicted her on counts of incitement to violence and support for a terrorist organization. The charges stemmed…
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Culture Garrison Keillor Is Personally Offended That Philip Roth Hasn’t Won The Nobel Prize
If you have won the Nobel Prize in Literature since 2009, when Garrison Keillor’s top pick John Updike passed away and thus became ineligible for the award, and you are not named Philip Roth, you may expect to be called “a writer of migraines.” That’s the first of many insults lobbed by the former host…
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The Schmooze ‘Crazy Ex-Girlfriend’ Returns, A Eulogy For Michael Friedman And More Weekend Culture Picks
The parade of autumnal Jewish holidays continues: To those celebrating Shemini Atzeret and Simchat Torah, Chag Sameach! While the lure of leaf-peeping, sweater-wearing and Instagramming is tough to resist, make time for great new books, movies and cultural events in New York City, Washington D.C., Chicago and Los Angeles. 1) Watch CW’s musical comedy series…
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Culture Anne Kauffman’s New Play Sent Her To Synagogue For The First Time In A Decade
A parent has a child with a chronic illness. Obviously, that parent’s life transforms; what, exactly, does it become? That question forms the heart of Amy Herzog’s new play “Mary Jane,” which runs through October 29 at New York Theatre Workshop. Directed by Anne Kauffman and staring Carrie Coon, the play’s title character, a single…
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