Joy Horowitz lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Her books include Tessie and Pearlie: A Granddaughter’s Story and The Poisoning of an American High School.
CONTRIBUTOR ARTICLES
Ordinary Courage: A Conversation with Laurel Leff
Laurel Leff discusses her new book about how American universities responded to the Holocaust....
Grabbing the Narrative for Yourself: An Interview with Jamie Bernstein
A poignant, revealing memoir by the daughter of Leonard Bernstein....
A Love Affair with a Tree: What One Red Oak Can Teach Us About Climate Change
The tale of a love affair between a reporter and a tree....
The Emerging Genre of Slut Lit
The emerging genre of Slut Lit reminds us how women’s bodies have always been a sort of Rorschach test for society’s deeper anxieties about women’s roles....
Wild Literary Geographies
David Gessner gives us some hope, even as he provides a renewed understanding of the true vulnerability of the American West....
Too Jewish?: The Making of Fiddler on the Roof
Initially investors, particularly Jewish investors, feared that Fiddler on the Roof show be considered “too ethnic,” meaning “too Jewish.”...
Life Elsewhere
Joy Horowitz on "Birds of Paradise Lost"...
[VIDEO] Book of Ages: The Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin
A PRINT VERSION of this interview can be found here. Author JILL LEPORE talks about her latest book on Benjamin Franklin's ...
What Gets Saved and What Gets Lost: An Interview with Jill Lepore
Jill Lepore: “I wanted to tell Jane Franklin’s story as a way to ask readers to think about how history gets written: what gets saved and what gets lost."...
Exit This Way: An Interview with Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot
IN SARA LAWRENCE-LIGHTFOOT'S office at Harvard, the color purple is everywhere. The lavender rug and desk chair and the giant amethyst ...
Breasts Are Us
THERE'S NOTHING LIKE STARING at mountains to remind us of breasts — their magnificence, their evolutionary brilliance, their voluptuous tug on ...
Deconstructing Wendy
This play unfolds, as so many contemporary dramas now do, over the medium of email....
The Bridge
Beauty linked to life and death....
Signs and Wonders
Read in tandem, Starr’s and Braudy’s books offer a concise but compelling reflection on California history....
The Sign
It is almost entirely abstract....
