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 For These Lesbian Activists, The Future Has Always Been Female
In her first public statement since Donald Trump’s inauguration, released by video at AOL’s 2017 MAKERS Conference, Hillary Clinton uttered four words that caused a kerfuffle across the political spectrum: “The future is female.” As The Washington Post’s Katie Mettler reported, at the conference, which unsurprisingly skewed liberal — it was in California, for one…
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Culture Broadway Producer Lashes Out At New York Times Over ‘Big River’ Review
It’s rarely considered good form, in the theater world, for high-level creatives involved in a production — producers, directors, etc. — to respond to that production’s reviews. That’s a rule with which Jack Viertel, senior vice president of Broadway theater operator Jujamcyn Theaters and artistic director of New York City Center’s Encores! series, is admittedly…
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Culture Constitutional Scholar Suing Trump Thinks The Case Could Make History
After Erwin Chemerinsky agreed to an interview with me, I sent a benignly gloating text to a friend who, in high school, had been my teammate in an intensive constitutional law competition. “Are you f****** kidding me right now,” he responded. Chemerinsky is something of an icon in the field of Constitutional law. Now, making…
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Culture ‘Girls’ Enters Its Final Season, And More To Read, Watch, And Do This Weekend
It’s almost the weekend, and whether you’re in still-snowy New York or surprisingly rainy Los Angeles, the weather is no excuse to miss out on great cultural events — unless you’re binge-watching past seasons of HBO’s “Girls” in advance of the premiere of its final season, in which case, more power to you. That premiere…
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Culture Can Microdosing LSD Fix Mood Swings? Ayelet Waldman Tried To Find Out.
Ayelet Waldman was sewing when she picked up the phone, trying to fix a top with a neckline that dipped slightly too low. Her husband, she confessed, is better with a needle than she is, but she’s learning. That husband is the novelist Michael Chabon, and when it comes to their shared life — four…
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Culture Stephen Sondheim Awarded Prestigious PEN Literary Honor
Stephen Sondheim will receive the 2017 PEN/Allen Foundation Literary Service Award, PEN America announced on Wednesday. The organization, which advocates for freedom of literary expression worldwide, annually gives the honor to a writer who, according to their website, “helps us to understand the human condition in original and powerful ways.” Sondheim is the first composer-lyricist…
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Culture Walter Hautzig’s Talent Brought Him Fame – And Saved Him From The Holocaust
Walter Hautzig’s path out of Nazi-occupied Austria began with a piano his grandfather purchased for his mother, his daughter explained at his funeral this past Thursday. If his mother decided to go with the other option he had given her for a gift — a fur coat — things might have turned out very differently….
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Culture Backing ‘Hustler’ Trump, Gay Talese Blames Journalism’s Woes on Decline in Anti-Semitism
Gay Talese, the legendary journalist who most recently made headlines for ethical scandals surrounding his 2016 book “The Voyeur’s Motel,” is well-dressed, unsurprisingly verbose, and cranky. Those are the prime takeaways on Talese’s persona from Moran Sharir’s interview with the icon for Haaretz, published on February 3. But what of the man’s opinions on the…
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