Margalit Fox

Sep 19, 2024 | bostonglobe.com | Margalit Fox

Lucine Amara, an American singer who continued a decades-long career at the Metropolitan Opera after she successfully brought the company up on age-discrimination charges in a widely publicized case, died on Sept. 6 at her home in Queens. She was 99. Her daughter, Evelyn La Quaif, a soprano and stage director, who had shared an apartment with her mother in recent weeks, said that the cause was respiratory illness and heart failure and that Ms. Amara also had dementia.

Jul 29, 2024 | hadassahmagazine.org | Margalit Fox |Gila Pfeffer |Hasia R. Diner |Adina Allen

Email Print The Talented Mrs. Mandelbaum: The Rise and Fall of an American Organized-Crime BossBy Margalit Fox (Random House)Journalist Margalit Fox brings to vivid life a storied figure largely unknown today: A Jewish woman who was one of the most infamous underworld criminal leaders in 19th century New York City.

Jul 11, 2024 | crimereads.com | Margalit Fox

New York, July 22, 1884They were detectives, accustomed to plunder, But they’d never seen anything like this. It had taken some doing to open the safe. After bursting into the modest haberdashery shop on Manhattan’s Lower East Side, they’d demanded the keys from the shopkeeper, Fredericka Mandelbaum. But Mrs. Mandelbaum, a towering woman of fifty-nine, tastefully attired in diamond cluster earrings and a lace-trimmed gown of dotted blue, held firm. “No,” she declared, in her heavy Germanic English.

May 22, 2024 | publishersweekly.com | Peter Hessler |Margalit Fox |Andrea Freeman |Rob Jackson

Casey Michel. St. Martin’s, $30 (368p) ISBN 978-1-250-28605-5Corruption on behalf of despots is the stock in trade of American lobbyists who work for foreign governments, according to this masterful exposé. Michel (American Kleptocracy), director of the Combatting Kleptocracy Program at the Human Rights Foundation, surveys many such lobbyists, with a focus on two egregious examples.

May 14, 2024 | publishersweekly.com | Sarah Thornton |Peter Hessler |Margalit Fox |Andrea Freeman

Tits Up: What Sex Workers, Milk Bankers, Plastic Surgeons, Bra Designers, and Witches Tell Us About Breasts In this fun and far-ranging account, sociologist Thornton (Seven Days in the Art World) explores the topic of women’s breasts from a female perspective—tying in multiple aesthetic, professional, and spiritual threads of analysis while eschewing the “male gaze.” Relating her own anecdotes on breastfeeding in the 1990s—when it still had a strongly taboo feeling, especially in public—and...