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 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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Culture 72 Authors Are Supporting Jill Bialosky Against Plagiarism Accusations. They’re Still Wrong.
Jill Bialosky, the poet, memoirist, novelist and executive editor at W.W. Norton & Company recently accused of plagiarism in her new memoir “Poetry Will Save Your Life,” has a long list of powerful supporters. Former poets laureate Robert Pinsky and Louise Glück, Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Jennifer Egan, and some 70-odd other authors signed a Letter…
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Culture Annie Baker, Yuval Sharon Named MacArthur Fellows
Playwright Annie Baker and opera director Yuval Sharon are among the cultural figures to be awarded 2017 MacArthur Fellowships. The Fellowships, colloquially known as “genius grants,” come with a no-strings-attached award of $625,000. They are awarded annually to between 20 and 30 Americans across a range of disciplines. The MacArthur Foundation lauded Baker, who won…
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Culture Harvey Weinstein Is Not A Philip Roth Character, Because His Accusers Are Real
Updated, 3:30 p.m.: Mark Oppenheimer has issued an apology through Tablet for his article concerning Harvey Weinstein and Philip Roth, discussed below. Read his comments here. Harvey Weinstein can be said, definitively, to be several things: Formerly one of the most powerful men in Hollywood, a Jew, and unemployed. He can be very substantively alleged…
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Culture Simon Schama, Daniel Mendelsohn Shortlisted For Baillie Gifford Prize
Simon Schama’s “Belonging: The Story of the Jews, 1492-1900” and Daniel Mendelsohn’s “An Odyssey: A Father, a Son and an Epic” have been shortlisted for this year’s Baillie Gifford Prize, one of the United Kingdom’s most prestigious literary awards for nonfiction. The award, which comes with a prize of £30,000, or close to $40,000, was…
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