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 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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The Schmooze Neil Diamond In Chicago, And More To Read, Watch, And Do This Weekend
Chicago Neil Diamond fans, you’re in luck: The singer-songwriter will play the United Center this Saturday. If a rousing chorus of “Sweet Caroline” isn’t quite your vibe, head to Skokie’s Northlight Theatre instead for a performance of “Relativity,” Mark St. Germain’s play about late-in-life moral and emotional dilemmas facing Albert Einstein. The scientist is played…
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Culture Michael Bloomberg Gives $75 Million To New Manhattan Arts Center
Former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg is still helping shape the city, most recently in the form of a $75 million gift to the Shed Arts Center. The cultural hub, currently under construction in Hudson Yards, is intended to open in the spring of 2019, featuring a range of performance and gallery spaces, as…
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Culture Next Stop For ‘The Band’s Visit’? Broadway
“The Band’s Visit,” a theatrical adaptation of the 2007 film of the same name, will appear on Broadway this coming fall. The musical, which premiered Off-Broadway last fall at the Atlantic Theater Company, consists of a book by Itamar Moses and music and lyrics by David Yazbek. Following an Egyptian band as it accidentally stumbles…
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