Arts & Culture

Living, reading, watching and listening Jewishly—that’s the crux of Moment’s Arts & Culture section. Here you can find book reviews, poetry, fiction, art and music. Don’t miss our fantastic interviews with artists and musicians.

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Sometimes I’m scared I’ll call my surviving daughter by her sister’s name, Becky, the one who was lost, when Talia is the one who’s still here. ...
Yesterday someone robbed me, and today, / an afternoon of rain brings a double rainbow. ...

The following article contains spoilers for Season 2 of Ramy In every person’s life, there is a moment when they

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It’s hard enough to digest current events without an endless stream of unsolicited commentary clogging up your newsfeed. So it’s understandable that some of us avoid Twitter. In this new series, Moment will shed some light on what’s been trending and why. ...

As the stock of unwatched streaming content thins out, trolling the Netflix byways can yield some fascinating, if otherwise obscure,

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1939: A People’s History By Frederick Taylor W. W. Norton & Company; 448 pp; $30 Library shelves are full of

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Confined to her home studio outside Tel Aviv during the COVID-19 lockdown, artist Zoya Cherkassky started producing a painting a day. ...
Does time move differently for Jews? Does Judaism have its own view of time? ...

I Want You to Know We’re Still Here: A Post-Holocaust Memoir By Esther Safran Foer Tim Duggan Book $27.00, 226

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Even as pandemic lockdowns are eased in some respects and locales, we’re likely to need home screen and streaming content

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"It galls me when Mrs. America keeps underscoring the friction among feminists rather than grappling with the complexity of our challenges." ...