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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Solvej Schou is a Jewish musician, writer and feminist. Her art and politics are largely inspired by her family—particularly her
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Why make a documentary that is nearly as much fiction as fantasy, and why deliberately attempt to blur the two? ...
That insight—that culture and identity are not DNA—is one that Dani Shapiro, author of the recently published Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love, doesn’t get. ...
Going back to his early line drawings, you can see that Sendak liked to populate the world with Sendaks. ...
Why not pick your next read by applying sports-style analytics? ...
Leah Forster, 36, is an ultra-Orthodox female standup comic—a rare occurrence if ever there was one—and she has always been a controversial figure. ...
Is the movie as good as the book? Often, the answer to this perennial question is a flat “No.” ...
We want to hear from you: What five books would you recommend to be an educated Jew? ...
We asked a group of rabbis, scholars, educators, writers, experts and artists to give us their recommendations. This is the first installment of an ongoing project. ...
Marge Piercy doesn’t live that far off the beaten track—it’s only Cape Cod, after all—but it feels remote, especially in the off-season. The poet, novelist and longtime feminist activist, who’s now 83, has lived in Wellfleet, Massachusetts, since the 1970s. ...
Rudolph “Rudi” Gernreich was one of the most prominent fashion designers of the 1950s, ’60s and ’70s. His revolutionary designs and avant-garde collections embodied his vision of fashion as a liberating force that defied conventional ideas of beauty, identity and gender. “Fearless Fashion: Rudi Gernreich,” on view through September 1 ...