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 Radiohead Singer On BDS: ‘I Don’t Agree With The Cultural Ban’
In a new interview with Rolling Stone, Radiohead’s Thom Yorke has responded to calls for the band to cancel a July performance in Israel. “I’ll be totally honest with you: this has been extremely upsetting,” he told the magazine. “There’s an awful lot of people who don’t agree with the BDS movement, including us. I…
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Culture ‘Mr. Met Is All Of Us Right Now’
In a gesture viewed with shock around the world — ok, just in New York — this past Wednesday night, beloved baseball mascot Mr. Met took the colorfully rebellious step of flipping off a fan. But New York-based writer Sadie Stein thinks we should hold off on the outrage. Last week, pre bird-flipping, Stein, whose…
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The Schmooze Al Franken Unleashed, And More To Read, Watch, And Do This Weekend
This weekend heralds the release of two long-awaited would-be masterpieces: The blockbuster film “Wonder Woman” and Al Franken’s return to comedy with his new book “Al Franken: Giant of the Senate.” If you can get a ticket to “Wonder Woman,” by all means go and wonder — ha — at Israeli star Gal Gadot’s performance….
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Culture Why Did Britain Ban This Klezmer Musician’s #1 Song?
Jake Painter, trumpet player, doesn’t look like much of a rabble-rouser. But the genial-visaged British musician’s band Captain SKA has just released Britain’s most popular song — and gotten it banned from a large portion of the country’s radio stations. What’s the issue? “Liar, Liar” is a catchy, furious takedown of the United Kingdom’s current…
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Film & TV Will Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan Novels Become TV’s Next ‘Game Of Thrones’?
Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan Novels became a literary phenomenon. Will a televised adaptation of the books meet similar success? The author, who write under a pseudonym and has kept her identity studiously under wraps even after a reporter, last fall, claimed to have “unmasked her,” told The New York Times she thinks expectations should be kept…
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Culture Why T.J. Miller’s ‘Silicon Valley’ Character Will Always Be A Legend
For fans of HBO’s “Silicon Valley,” a so-absurd-it’s-almost-believable send up of the world’s most famous tech hub, T.J. Miller’s character Erlich Bachman is a subject of obsession. In a show filled with characters ranging from the merely twitchy to the avowedly Satanist, the crude, self-obsessed, maniacal man-child Bachman is the one that audiences, without fail,…
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Culture Philip Roth Doesn’t Believe He’s An American Jew
Is Philip Roth an American Jew? The answer seems obvious, except to the novelist himself. In an essay for The New Yorker titled “I Have Fallen in Love With American Names” and adapted from Roth’s 2002 speech accepting the National Book Foundation’s Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, Roth takes a dreamlike look back…
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Culture Irving Penn Gets Intimate — Very Intimate — At The Met
In portraits, Irving Penn liked to photograph his subjects at the mercy of their creations. He shot the fashion designer, Charles James sprawled with near-sensuous resignation at the foot of a mannequin wearing a ball gown; Salvador Dalí with his angular face jutting out as if pulled forward, relentlessly, by his expertly waxed mustache; Gianni…
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