Talya Zax is the Forward’s opinion editor. Contact her at zax@forward.com or on Twitter, @TalyaZax.
Talya ZaxOpinion Editor
By Talya Zax
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Culture How Yitzhak Rabin’s Assassination Left Amos Gitai Searching For The Right Words
Last week, following a one-night-only Manhattan performance of Israeli filmmaker Amos Gitai’s “Yitzhak Rabin: Chronicle of an Assassination,” I asked a friend what she’d thought of the performance. She wondered, hesitantly, if there needed to be quite so many gunshots. I knew to expect them. The multi-media performance wasn’t Gitai’s first take on the 1995…
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Culture In Vogue, Texas Congressional Candidate Talks Activism, Climate Change
In May, Laura Moser spoke to the Forward about her decision to run for Congress. Now, two months into her campaign for Texas’s Seventh District, Moser — who, prior to deciding to run for office, founded the activist network Daily Action — has written about the challenges and triumphs of life on the campaign trail…
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Culture Allen Ginsberg Was The Voice Of The Beats. Now, Hear His Voice Online.
Stanford Libraries have been on an Allen Ginsberg roll. After digitizing Ginsberg’s manuscripts of his iconic poem “Howl” earlier this summer, Open Culture reports that Stanford has added a substantial archive of audio recordings related to Ginsberg’s career to their online offerings. The materials include recordings of Ginsberg leading college lectures and workshops, like his…
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Culture These Artists Called For A Boycott Of An Israeli Play. Here’s Why They’re Wrong.
On Monday, July 24, a stage adaptation of David Grossman’s novel “To the End of the Land” will make its United States premiere. But a number of prominent American theater artists wish it wouldn’t. Their numbers include the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwrights Lynn Nottage, Annie Baker, Bruce Norris, and Tracy Letts, as well as the directors…
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Culture Remembering Diana Trilling, Overlooked ‘Lioness’ Of American Literature
Diana Trilling, born on this day in 1905, had a complicated relationship to the world of American literature and letters. As a book critic and essayist, writing first for The Nation and then for publications including Harper’s and The New Yorker, Trilling was widely respected — Martin Amis, remembering his first meeting with her, called…
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The Schmooze Comic-Con, ‘Sondheim On Sondheim,’ And More To Read, Watch And Do This Weekend
If you’re planning to spend your weekend blissed-out on a beach, we don’t blame you. If you’re looking to beat the heat, check out our top picks for weekend plans, below. 1) Read Look back to an iconic summer or two of the past with The New Yorker’s newly-released “The 60s: The Story of a…
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The Schmooze ‘A Bunch Of Jews’ Is An Actual Panel At Comic-Con This Year
This right here, folks, is your guide to the Jewish highlights of San Diego Comic-Con 2017. True, there are a number of exciting panels on offer, from a series celebrating the centenary of legendary comic book artist Jack Kirby to Gal Gadot talking about her next appearance as Wonder Woman in the upcoming “Justice League.”…
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Culture Tony Kushner Is Writing A Play About ‘Very Boring’ Donald Trump
Donald Trump, when he was elected president, likely didn’t expect that he would come to dominate America’s theater scene. Yet between the Public Theater’s headline-making representation of a Trump-like despot-in-the-making in “Julius Caesar,” playwright Robert Schenkkan’s imagination of a Trump-created dystopia in “Building the Wall,” and the rushed import of a British stage adaptation of…
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