Phoebe Maltz Bovy is a former editor of the Sisterhood blog at the Forward. Her writing has appeared in several publications, including The New Republic and The Atlantic. Her book, “The Perils of ‘Privilege,’” was published by St. Martin’s Press in March 2017. She has a PhD in French and French Studies from New York University, and has read a lot of 19th century French Jewish newspapers for a 21st century American.
Phoebe Maltz Bovy
By Phoebe Maltz Bovy
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Life Links for Later
In the Atlantic, Megan Garber reviews Ina Garten’s new cookbook, Cooking for Jeffrey, in which Garten evidently reveals that she makes her husband challah, and that he enjoys other “traditional Jewish dishes.” At the Cut, Stella Bugbee writes movingly about how her view of mothers in the workplace changed after she had kids. There’s a…
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Life When Trump was on ‘The Nanny’
As I’ve told all who will listen, the strangest thing about this election, to me, has been less that my country might be going totalitarian (I’ve read enough Hannah Arendt to know that such things, unfortunately, happen) as who that would-be totalitarian leader is. It’s not someone like Mike Huckabee, who had long been my…
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Life Gary Condit Co-Authors “Thriller” About Chandra Levy Case
All time is one. Donald Trump, who emanates 1980s, is running for president against Hillary Clinton, who evokes (and weirdly stands accused of) the 1990s. Tinsley Mortimer, a socialite who suggests I’m not sure exactly which year, is now back on the scene. A Sarah Jessica Parker protagonist’s love life is on HBO. These are…
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Life Megyn Kelly isn’t ‘Fascinated With Sex.’ Trump-Surrogate Newt Gingrich Might Be.
The problem, Americans had heard for years, was that we, unlike our more sophisticated counterparts across the Atlantic, expected puritanical saintliness from our politicians. Why couldn’t we just (tosses neck-scarf) look the other way, and focus on our leaders’ ability to do the job? And then, 2016 happened. All of a sudden, we have a…
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Life The Secret Jewishness of Inspector Hercule Poirot
When I noticed the other day that Liz Meriwether had recommended Agatha Christie’s Poirot as an “antidote to the 2016 election” in New York Magazine back in August, I had one of those moments where you can deeply, personally, relate to an article. Here is Meriwether, on fictional private detective Hercule Poirot’s signature mustache: “As…
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Life WATCH: Polish Women, in Black, Protest Proposed Abortion Laws
At the beginning of October, protestors in Poland, dressed in black, successfully prevented that nation’s government from turning already-restrictive abortion laws into a ban. Earlier this week, protestors took on the latest proposal from this strongly Catholic country: a restriction on abortion even in cases where the fetus would not survive, or is severely deformed….
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Life Ivanka, We’re Not Buying It — Your Words, or Your Clothes
Everyone! #GrabYourWallet & tell the stores that sell Donald’s products and those of his campaign surrogates: we won’t shop until they drop. pic.twitter.com/6XK3EAGdlV — Shannon Coulter ? (@shannoncoulter) October 20, 2016 The great ambiguity at the center of the Trump campaign goes as follows: Are we witnessing a grand political ambition, or a great big…
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Life Leggings as Anti-Trump Protest?
Due to Trump’s overt misogyny, there’s been a shift not just in how American women discuss abuse, but in how even relatively minor blips of sexism are received by a fed-up population. I’m thinking, specifically, of my own reaction to a blog comment that was, in turn, tangentially in response to Alice Robb’s brilliant Elle…
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