How ‘Giant’ Reopens the Question of Roald Dahl

Of course you walk into Broadway’s Music Box Theater to see “Giant” knowing that you are going to see that nice John Lithgow in a show about children’s author Roald Dahl’s howling antisemitism; at these prices, everyone who is there very much wants to be. Yet there are so many little gasps of surprise from the audience that you’d have sworn we did not know anything.
And that’s how antisemitism itself works, isn’t it?
We don’t know anyone who feels like that, and yet antisemitic hate crimes in the U.S. broke records again last year. (They’re also up in New York City so far this year. I tried…
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