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 ‘Indecent’ To Close On Broadway
Paula Vogel’s “Indecent” will close on Broadway on June 25. The play was Vogel’s Broadway debut. Director Rebecca Taichman, who co-created the show with Vogel, won this year’s Tony Award for best direction of a play. “Indecent” isn’t the only play to announce an early closing following the Tony Awards. Lynn Nottage’s “Sweat,” also her…
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Culture Did Bob Dylan Plagiarize His Nobel Lecture — From Sparknotes?
You would not be blamed for weeping over the news that Bob Dylan, an already-controversial recipient of the 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature, may have plagiarized part of the Nobel Lecture he gave in acceptance of the prize from Sparknotes. Yes, really: Sparknotes. The news was broken by Slate’s Andrea Pitzer, who took on the…
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Culture This Artist Wanted Her Work Destroyed — Thankfully It Wasn’t
‘Occasionally / A human being / Saw my light / Rushed in / Got singed / Got scared / Rushed out,” Florine Stettheimer once wrote in a poem titled “Occasionally.” The full text of that poem, a lush yet minimal explication of what it feels like to be unknowable, occupies a final wall in The…
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Art New Center For Jewish History Head David Myers Shares His Vision For The Future
The Center for Jewish History has announced that its new President and Chief Executive Officer will be David N. Myers, the Sady and Ludwig Kahn Professor of Jewish History in the UCLA History Department, where he has taught for the past 25 years. Myers is also the author of such books as “Re-inventing the Jewish…
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The Schmooze The Tony Awards And More To Read, Watch, And Do This Weekend
Dear reader, if your weekend entertainment plans don’t consist solely of re-watching former FBI director James Comey’s testimony to the Senate — and composing a few coy tweets in response — we first applaud you, and second, have recommendations. Read on. Read New books! Hurrah. Rachel Kadish’s “The Weight of Ink,” Anthony Horowitz’s “The Magpie…
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Culture How Allen Ginsberg Wrote The Poem Of A Generation
At some point, either in a high school English class or in a circle of semi-stoned friends — frankly, sometimes they’re one and the same (I’m from Colorado, sorry) — you’ve likely heard the famous opening line of Allen Ginsberg’s poem “Howl:” “I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness,/starving hysterical naked,/dragging…
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Culture Ben Platt, Bette Midler, Scarlett Johansson To Perform At 2017 Tony Awards
Ben Platt, Bette Midler, and Scarlett Johansson will be among the performers and presenters at the 2017 Tony Awards, which will be presented on Sunday, June 11. Platt is nominated for Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical for his star turn in “Dear Evan Hansen,” and Midler is up…
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Culture Why That Leering ‘Wonder Woman’ Review Does A Disservice To Criticism
In the modern, click-hungry media, one way to ensure a piece racks in readers is to have it be egregiously offensive. Exhibit A: David Edelstein’s recent review of the Gal Gadot-led “Wonder Woman” for New York Magazine. Much of Edelstein’s review suggests sexism, from his declaration that, despite a lack of the S&M intonations of…
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