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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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." ...

FX’s newly released Mrs. America portrays the battle between the second-wave feminists who aimed to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment

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When The Restaurant launched in Sweden in 2017, the website Drama Quarterly said that the series “is as brave, bold and ambitious as they come. A sprawling ensemble drama that opens in the aftermath of the Second World War and runs across two decades, it is an emotion-filled family saga ...
Simon and Burns thus expand the point of view of the series, taking us outside Philip’s home and into Evelyn and Alvin’s lives. In doing so, they fill out Roth’s characters, shaping them into vibrant and complex figures driven by clear motivations and desires. They strive to tell a more ...