Interview | Beyond Bagels & Lox
Raised in the small Jewish community of Honolulu, Hawaii, in the 1970s, bestselling author Allegra Goodman grew up far from Jewish delis, JCCs and other...
Opinion | Fear and Loathing in the Library
Book bans are about both control and terror.
Bookstagram Backlash for The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, a 2006 novel about the son of a fictional commandant of Auschwitz who befriends a Jewish inmate his own...
12 Books That Made Us Think in 2022
Here are 12 books that made us think—one for each month of 2022—along with some of the books they made us think of reading next.
From the Newsletter | It’s deep midsummer. What are you reading?
It always seems there’s a little more leeway in our reading choices in summer, when things slow down just enough to let us think big.
Everything is Material: The Influence of Love, Loss and Humor in Fiction and Memoir with Susan Coll, Delia Ephron and Amy E. Schwartz—in celebration of the Moment-Karma Fiction Contest
Susan Coll, author of the novel Bookish People and Delia Ephron, screenwriter for movies like You’ve Got Mail and Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants and author of the memoir Left on Tenth: A Second Chance on Life, discuss the influence of love, loss and humor in the creative writing process. In conversation with Moment book & opinion editor Amy E. Schwartz. A special literary event celebrating the Moment Magazine-Karma Foundation Short Fiction Contest celebration.
The indomitable Shari Lewis and Lamb Chop with Mallory Lewis, Nat Segaloff and Sarah Breger
Famed ventriloquist and creator of the iconic puppet Lamb Chop, Shari Lewis was one of the few women to run her own television production company at a time when most women were shut out of the industry. Lewis and Lamb Chop entertained generations of children with their many television shows, including specials about Hanukkah and Passover. Mallory Lewis, Emmy Award-winning performer and daughter of Shari, and TV writer-producer Nat Segaloff, join Moment editor Sarah Breger for a conversation about Lewis’ stage and TV career, how Judaism influenced her work, the challenges of being a businesswoman in a male dominated field and how she and her puppet became iconic stars loved by millions. Mallory Lewis and Segaloff are the authors of the forthcoming book Shari Lewis & Lamb Chop: The Team That Changed Children’s Television.
This program is in celebration of Jewish American Heritage Month.
The Thrilling World of Brad Meltzer
Brad Meltzer is a New York Times bestselling author known for his legal thrillers, including the recently released The Lightning Rod. His non-fiction work includes a biography series for children with such titles as I am Anne Frank as well as the upcoming The Nazi Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill Roosevelt, Stalin and Churchill. He is also the host of the tv shows Lost History and Decoded. Meltzer is in conversation with former CBS News correspondent and Moment contributor Dan Raviv about how his law school experience has helped him develop his stories, the extensive research that goes into each book, his commitment to educating children through his “I Am” series and how his concern about antisemitism has influenced some of his work.
Beshert | I Was Done Writing Books. I Thought.
Liza Wiemer had been planning to give up writing novels. Then she had a chance meeting in a bookstore with the girl who would inspire her to write again.
The ‘Maus’ Trap: Famous Banned Books by Jewish Authors
Art Spiegelman is one of several Jewish authors to have a book banned in recent decades.
From the Newsletter | The Politics of Paranoia, Then and Now
It’s always tempting to think that things have never been this crazy.
