Art, Culture & Music
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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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 ...
Marcel Proust In Search of Lost Time Robert Siegel Review ...
A review of The World of Aufbau Book by Peter Schrag, written by Jenna Weismann Joselit ...
Bob Dylan friend Louie Kemp tells of their experiences going to Jewish Herzl camp as kids. ...
Louie Kemp, Bob Dylan's lifelong friend and manager of Dylan's 1975 Rolling Thunder tour, tells about meeting Dylan at camp, their adventures over the years and Dylan's relationship with Judaism. ...
From its origins with Jewish musicians in the 1970s to modern-day Jewish punk bands, the histories of Jewish culture and punk rock are deeply intertwined. ...
At 88 years old, Viorst doesn’t fail to remind us how fiercely funny she is in her appropriately titled poetry collection: Nearing 90 and Other Comedies of Late Life. ...
Vivian Gornick reviews Susie Linfield's The Lions' Den, a book critiquing the Left's stance on Israel through a variety of notable thinkers, including Hannah Arendt, Noam Chomsky, and others. ...
Author Geraldine Brooks reviews Nathan Englander's new book, kaddish.com ...
Robert Siegel Reviews Deborah Lipstadt's new book, Antisemitism, and Mark Weitzmann's Hate: The Rising Tide of Anti-Semitism in France. ...
André Aciman and Debra Granik discuss the art of adapting literature to film. ...
In Never a Native, Alice Shalvi, a founding mother of Israeli feminism, has written a book that is both inspiring and painful. ...