Hi, I'm Talya

I'm a journalist and editor based in Brooklyn. I'm currently the innovation and acting opinion editor of the Forward, and my writing has also appeared in The New York Times and The Atlantic. My work has been recognized by the Deadline Club, Society for Features Journalism and American Jewish Press Association . My fiction, non-fiction and playwriting have received awards from the BBC, Crab Orchard Review and Jewish Quarterly.

SELECTED JOURNALISM

"Profiting from genocide, Disney’s ‘Mulan’ ignores lessons from the Holocaust" The Forward, September 13, 2020

"Looking at Epic Poetry Through 21st-Century Eyes" The New York Times, July 23, 2020

"Philip Roth doesn't live here anymore" The Forward, May 17, 2020

"The unbearable emptiness of being Woody Allen" The Forward, March 27, 2020

"A Book So Far Ahead of Its Time, It Took 87 Years to Find a Publisher" The New York Times, February 5, 2020

"The Gorgeous, Grungy New York Values Of 'Sesame Street'" The Forward, November 11, 2019

"The 19th-Century Feminist Novel Pushed Out of the Russian Canon" The Atlantic, November 5, 2019

"Revisiting Hitler, in a New Authoritarian Age" The New York Times, September 29, 2019

"Like Philip Roth, But Feminist: Taffy Brodesser-Akner’s Debut Novel" The Forward, June 18, 2019

"Men Explain Anne Frank To Me" The Forward, December 16, 2018

"Complicity In Nazi Germany — And Here" The Forward, July 20, 2018

"Chaim Soutine Was Obsessed With Dead Animals. In Painting Them, He Acutely Captured Life" The Forward, May 18, 2018

"André Aciman Confronts Exile And Desire" The Forward, February 25, 2018

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