She longed to be a lover and an outlaw; she became a writer instead
Francine Prose's memoir '1974' is a portrait of a relatively brief encounter and an entire generation
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Culture Men explain Anne Frank to me
The idea of Anne Frank surviving has been done, frankly, to death — almost always, by men.
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The Schmooze The Oscars, Mario Vargas Llosa’s Latest And More To Read, Watch And Do This Weekend
It’s Oscars weekend, and, for once, the often-predictable ceremony has the admittedly mild potential to be genuinely interesting. On the biggest night of Hollywood’s year, how will presenters, performers and award-winners address the ongoing revelations of pervasive sexual assault and harassment that began with The New York Times’s exposé on Harvey Weinstein? A surprising number…
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Culture Is ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ Anti-Feminist?
Hulu’s television adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s dystopian novel “The Handmaid’s Tale” has gained general acclaim as a feminist manifesto for our times. But critic and novelist Francine Prose isn’t buying it. Writing in The New York Review of Books last week, Prose wrote that the show, which explores a fictionalized future United States in which…
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Fast Forward Philip Roth, Stephen Sondheim Join Writers Exhorting Trump To Reconsider Immigration Ban
Philip Roth, Stephen Sondheim, Art Spiegelman and a number of other Jewish luminaries have lent their names to an open letter beseeching President Trump to reconsider restricting entry to the country for refugees from around the world and immigrants from a group of Muslim-majority countries. The letter, signed by 65 writers and artists and written…
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Culture Meet the Author Calling for a General Strike To Resist Trump
On Monday, January 30, The Guardian published a provocatively-titled opinion piece by author Francine Prose: “Forget protest. Trump’s actions warrant a general national strike.” In the column, Prose pondered the successes won by airport-based protests of President Donald Trump’s January 27 executive order on immigrants and refugees, which prevents all Syrian citizens from entering the…
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Culture Jonathan Safran Foer, Deborah Levy And More Make NYT Notable Books List
Last week, the New York Times named its “100 Notable Books of 2016.” Included in their number were many reviewed by the Forward. Those included Jonathan Safran Foer’s “Here I Am,” Michael Chabon’s “Moonglow,” Affinity Konar’s “Mischling,” Boris Fishman’s “Don’t Let My Baby Do Rodeo,” Deborah Levy’s “Hot Milk,” Adam Kirsch’s “The People and the…
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Culture How Peggy Guggenheim Re-Invented Modernism
Peggy Guggenheim: The Shock of the Modern By Francine Prose Yale University Press, 240 pages, $25 I feel compelled to begin my review of the novelist Francine Prose’s biography of art dealer and collector Peggy Guggenheim with a lengthy quote from another writer, in this case the Russian playwright Vladimir Sorokin, who wrote about Guggenheim…
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