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My new piece for the @jdforward . Do not miss these two books -- @RonnieGrinberg's Write Like A Man and @tromano 's Village Voice oral history -- my favorite books this year by a very lot. forward.com/culture/634002…
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Yael Friedman
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Yael Friedman
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Books. Art. The New York Mets. Sometimes I write about all three. For The Economist, LA Review of Books, The Forward, Urban Omnibus, City Lab, & elsewhere.
Brooklyn, NY Katılım Haziran 2011
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@HeerJeet @NikSheehan @jonkay Just watched Antigone (2019) tonight - it’s beautiful (lots of Antigones lately, trying to catch up).
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@NikSheehan @jonkay Trust me, most Hollywood movies are often even more second rate. In any case, English Canadian films aren't the only Canadian films, and Quebec has a robust cinema.
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I love actual art and entertainment.
But we're talking about Canadian film.
Please don't change the subject.
Jeet Heer@HeerJeet
@jonkay Have you ever enjoyed a work of art in your life -- a poem, a novel, a movie? Or is everything just culture war polemics to you?
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Calling NYC’s mayor a ‘radical Islam cockroach’ for criticizing foreign policy and ICE should be a job ender in New York.
If that slur targeted a Jewish or other New Yorker, there’d be outrage.
But apparently Anti-Muslim bigotry gets a pass.
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Benjamin Netanyahu began his political career by viciously inciting against PM Yitzhak Rabin, who began a real peace process with the Palestinians and was murdered by an extremist who took Netanyahu’s accusations of treason seriously. Seven months later, he was Prime Minister.
The Atlantic@TheAtlantic
Benjamin Netanyahu’s long career was built on conflict avoidance—then, October 7 transformed and radicalized him, @Yair_Rosenberg argues: theatlantic.com/international/…
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Great episode and crikey what an epilogue (Chuck Lane’s current whereabouts).
Matthew Sitman@MatthewSitman
NEW @KnowYrEnemyPod for subscribers: Sam and I take up one our shared passions, the 2003 film ‘Shattered Glass,’ about disgraced former New Republic writer and fabulist Stephen Glass (link below)
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We mourn the loss of our dear friend Frederick Wiseman (1930-2026), a singular human with a singular genius for capturing humanity - and Film Forum’s most-premiered filmmaker 🕯️
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My new essay - about the wonderful documentary Drop Dead City and why watching it feels like looking at the reels of your own home movies - the films of the 70s. For @AWFJ
Alliance of Women Film Journalists@AWFJ
50 years ago New York City was on the edge of bankruptcy, dangerous and decrepit. Wonderful #FearCity doc #DropDeadCity from #MichaelRohatyn & #PeterYost about the 1975 fiscal crisis is a retelling of this pivotal moment in NYC history. @idapost reviews: awfj.org/blog/2026/02/0…
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"the data tells us what's valuable" write it on our civilization's tombstone
Dylan Byers@DylanByers
NEW Jeff Bezos statement: “The Post has an essential journalistic mission and an extraordinary opportunity. Each and every day our readers give us a roadmap to success. The data tells us what is valuable and where to focus. Jeff [D’Onofrio], along with Matt [Murray] and Adam [O’Neal], are positioned to lead The Post into an exciting and thriving next chapter.”
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When you start "the world's biggest bookstore" and buy a print publication but think encouraging a culture of reading is a waste of money and kill its books section.
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Also stacking the deck with the kind of problem her child has - an eating disorder- and all the guilt , etc, attached to that. I keep seeing it referred to as a “mysterious illness” in reviews and I’m baffled bc it’s such a fundamental part of the plot and the mother’s particular burden and breakdown.
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Rose Brynne is intense, brilliant in the depiction of a wife/mother overwhelmed by motherhood & a special-needs child; Conan O'Brien also excellent in a small but central role (the one person in the film with whom we feel sympathy); but over all, "If I Had Legs I Would Kick You" is excruciating to watch, not unlike "The Substance"--surreal horror, female self-loathing, stacking the deck with a special-needs child whose needs are indeed very special. (poor innocent child!--hoping no special-needs children ever see this film.)
no doubt, ordinary motherhood is often a strain; but this mother is overloaded to the point of absurdity.
very effective ending, however. & such relief! could not wait for the credits to roll.
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They’re both real Jews, it’s about how their Judaism is being leveraged and rebranded to appeal to an electorate. “Faith” makes Judaism legible/short hand for religion as something similar to Christianity (and well out of the realm of atheism, or something foreign/too different to slot into something already understood).
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can anyone pinpoint the year that public-facing jewish people started using the very christian (and very not jewish) word "faith" to describe their beliefs? have a hunch but curious if there is any actual writing/research on this...
Jacob N. Kornbluh@jacobkornbluh
Shapiro on Morning Joe: “I'm not ashamed of my faith. I'm proud of my faith… I don't sit here as someone who is claiming to be more religious than someone else .. but I am someone who believes in the universality of faith, the things that bring us together.”
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My review of Oliver Laxe’s stunning (and utterly devastating) new film. For @AWFJ
Alliance of Women Film Journalists@AWFJ
A man (Sergi Lopez) searches for his missing daughter in Oliver Laxe's devastating @neon film, #Sirat. He falls in with nomadic Europeans ravers somewhere in southern Morocco and finds chaos. And compassion. Breathtaking. Yael Friedman (@idapost) reviews: awfj.org/blog/2026/01/2…
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My review for @DEARDAVEMAG of Ron Norsworthy’s beautiful show at Edwynn Houk Gallery (you have until 1/17 to see it! Around the corner from MoMA) deardavemagazine.com/deardavereview…
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SENTIMENTAL VALUE (2025). An exceptional film, very literary in terms of its attentiveness to the inner lives of its character & the generational pressures they carry. But it's also a complete pleasure in terms of its cinematic rhythms & images-as-storytelling. I loved it.
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Going out as he came in, combining words in orders you’ve never considered before
Jake Offenhartz@jangelooff
In what may be his final mayoral press conference, Eric Adams says his next act will involve "using cryptocurrency to go after violence, educate our children and deal with antisemitism."
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I think PTA is aware that he isn't politically serious, which is why his proxy, Bob Ferguson, bumbles through the film, while bona fide revolutionaries, like his daughter, fight white supremacy. Bob's contribution to the cause ends up just being present for his daughter.
Stephen Piccarella@spiccarella
For my money One Battle After Another is very easy to enjoy, beginning to end, if you have no illusions that Paul Thomas Anderson is a politically serious filmmaker
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