Joy Horowitz
Articles
The Wisdom of Oscar Hammerstein II: A Conversation with Laurie Winer
Joy Horowitz speaks with Laurie Winer about her book “Oscar Hammerstein II and the Invention of the Musical.”
A Wacky Road to Redemption: On Francine Prose’s “The Vixen”
This fictional evocation of the 1950s Red Scare is warm, angry, and laugh-aloud funny.
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"
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
Breasts Are Us
Deconstructing Wendy
This play unfolds, as so many contemporary dramas now do, over the medium of email.
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