Talya Zax is the Forward’s opinion editor. Contact her at [email protected] or on Twitter, @TalyaZax.
Talya ZaxOpinion Editor
By Talya Zax
-
Culture New Novel Will Imagine Hillary Rodham Without Bill Clinton
Novelist Curtis Sittenfeld has rewritten Jane Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice” and the life of former first lady Laura Bush. Now, she has a new subject: Hillary Rodham Clinton. As part of a three-book deal with Random House, Sittenfeld, who is half-Jewish, will write a novel imagining what the former Secretary of State, senator, and first…
-
Culture On Thomas Pynchon’s 80th Birthday, Celebrate His Greatest Jewish Moments
The famously enigmatic novelist Thomas Pynchon, whose works include “Gravity’s Rainbow” and “Inherent Vice,” is a WASP; one of his ancestors rode into England with William the Conqueror. Still, some of the National Book Award winning author’s most memorable moments have been Jewish. In honor of his 80th birthday yesterday, here they are. 1) When…
-
Culture ‘Oslo’ Wins Top Outer Critics Circle Honors
J.T. Rogers’s “Oslo,” a gripping account of the behind-the-scenes diplomacy that powered the Oslo Accords, has won the 2017 Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding New Play. The Awards, announced this morning, also honored Jerry Herman and Michael Stewart’s “Hello, Dolly!” as Outstanding Revival of a Musical, Steven Levenson’s “If I Forget” as Outstanding New…
-
Culture 25 Years Later, ‘Angels In America’ Returns To London
Tony Kushner’s generation-defining two-part play “Angels in America” premiered in San Francisco in 1991, but to many, its first definitive production was at London’s National Theatre in 1992. The year-long run of “Angels in America: Millennium Approaches” — soon to be followed by part 2, “Angels in America: Perestroika” — cemented the play’s Broadway prospects,…
-
Culture Jane Jacobs’s Epic Battle With Robert Moses Takes To Times Square Billboards
In the 20th century, New York City was shaped by city planner Robert Moses, activist Jane Jacobs, and their notorious battles. Now the city’s most famous district, Times Square, will pay homage to the impact of their clashes. As DNA Info reports, a background animation to the opera “A Marvelous Order,” which chronicles the conflict,…
-
Culture See Nuremberg’s Last Living Prosecutor — And More To Read, Watch And Do This Weekend
The last living prosecutor to assist in the Nuremberg trials, a set of military tribunals that brought Nazi leaders to justice, learned an important lesson from the work: “War makes murderers out of otherwise decent people.” Ben Ferencz told that to Lesley Stahl of “60 Minutes,” which will air an interview with Ferencz this Sunday….
-
Culture Vladimir Putin Watched ‘Dr. Strangelove’ With Oliver Stone
If you were given exclusive access to Russian president Vladimir Putin, how would you make use of that time? Filmmaker Oliver Stone had an interesting answer to that question: Show him Stanley Kubrick’s “Dr. Strangelove.” Yes, really. As The Washington Post reported, Stone, interviewing Putin for the upcoming Showtime feature “The Putin Interviews,” showed the…
-
Culture Jean Stein, Best-Selling Oral Historian, Dies In Apparent Suicide
Jean Stein, a best-selling author of oral histories, passed away on Sunday, April 30. As The Guardian reported, Stein apparently jumped to her death from the 15th floor of a Manhattan high-rise. She was 83 years old. Stein’s books included “Edie: An American Girl,” in which she brought together the voices of Edie Sedgwick’s friends,…
Explore
Most Popular
- 1
News What We Know About Jeffrey Epstein’s Childhood
- 2
News Antisemitism group keeps board member who emailed Epstein on the legality of transporting minors for sex
- 3
Fast Forward AIPAC fails its first test in the midterms
- 4
Fast Forward Mamdani appoints Phylisa Wisdom, progressive Jewish leader, to run Office to Combat Antisemitism
In Case You Missed It
-
Letters Why the Super Bowl antisemitism ad uses a familiar slur
-
Opinion My university wants me to sign a loyalty oath — am I in America or Vichy France?
-
Fast Forward From far corners of the Jewish world, the women of Chabad gather in freezing Brooklyn
-
Opinion My grandmother Eva Schloss survived Auschwitz. She would not be silent about America today.
-
Shop the Forward Store
100% of profits support our journalism
