Dan Friedman is the executive editor of the Forward. Formerly the award-winning arts and culture editor of the Forward, he has also written for The New York Times, the Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal, and Da Ali G Show, and is the author of Shout to Change, an eBook about 1980s rock group Tears for Fears. Dan has a PhD in Comparative Literature from Yale and an MA in English Literature from Cambridge where he captained the university soccer team.
CONTRIBUTOR ARTICLES
A Literary Lineup for the World Cup
Dan Friedman offers a list of books for those obsessed or perplexed by the World Cup....
The Words We Don’t Use: On Eviatar Zerubavel’s “Taken for Granted: The Remarkable Power of the Unremarkable”
Dan Friedman parses “Taken for Granted: The Remarkable Power of the Unremarkable” by Eviatar Zerubavel....
Framing Our World: On Vanda Krefft’s “The Man Who Made the Movies: The Meteoric Rise and Tragic Fall of William Fox”
Dan Friedman unreels “The Man Who Made the Movies,” a biography of William Fox by Vanda Krefft....
The Robots Are Coming! (They’re Already Here)
Dan Friedman reviews “The Clockwork Dynasty,” the latest novel by futurist Daniel H. Wilson....
Getting Folks to Come Out to Your Kickball Game: Dennie Wendt’s American Soccer Novel
Dan Friedman plays ball with “Hooper’s Revolution” by Dennie Wendt....
The Astounding Achievement, Maybe, of the Man Who Definitely Wasn’t Fibonacci
Dan Friedman reckons with “Finding Fibonacci” by Keith Devlin....
Life, the Beautiful Game
Dan Friedman reviews “Home and Away: Writing the Beautiful Game” by Karl Ove Knausgaard and Fredrik Ekelund....
Cruyff’s Turn on the World Stage
Daniel Friedman reviews “My Turn: A Life of Total Football” by Dutch soccer legend Johan Cruyff....
Maybe You Just Don’t Get It: Jonathan Safran Foer’s “Here I Am”
Dan Friedman unpacks “Here I Am” by Jonathan Safran Foer....
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