JEWISH. INDEPENDENT. NONPROFIT.
We’ve had one day of spring, and now it is summertime! Congratulations to all; may you have blissful weekends at the beach, in the park, or, if you are a certain Forward writer, doing battle with the Rodent of Unusual Size that has found its way into your apartment’s walls. If you are happily rodent-free,…
In an essay published July 25th in the New York Times, Roxane Gay voices her exhaustion over narratives that imagine a world in which slavery still exists. She writes specifically about “Confederate”, the upcoming HBO show from “Game of Thrones” showrunners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss, that will tell the story of a fictional reality…
In Roxane Gay’s new book “Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body,” she explains that she’s “super morbidly obese,” distinguishing herself from the merely fat. But it’s not necessary. You don’t need to be super morbidly obese to get dirty looks on airplanes. To have losers shout mean shit at you on the street. To get…
It’s no secret that the second wave of the Feminist movement was propelled forward partially by Jewish women. Decades after some of the books written by these women were published, they continue to inspire women of all faiths and cultures to step and fight for the cause. Below, in no particular order, are 7 books…
Following the controversy surrounding “alt-right” fascist Milo Yiannopoulos’s $250,000 book deal with Simon & Schuster with TED Books, another Simon & Schuster imprint. Gay’s book, “How To Be Heard” was scheduled for release in March 2018, but is now indefinitely shelved until Gay can find another publisher. In a statement to Buzzfeed, Gay said that…
