Hannah Brown is a movie critic, fiction writer, and essayist. Most recently her work is found in the Jerusalem Post. She has been the movie critic for the New York Post and featured in The New York Times, Newsweek, the Tel Aviv Review of Books, New York Magazine, the Daily Beast, the Huffington Post, and many other publications.
She is also a novelist and short-story writer whose work is often inspired by her son, who is on the autism spectrum. Her novel, If I Could Tell You, about four mothers of children with autism, received positive reviews in The Jewish Week, The Times of Israel, and the New York Post. The New York Times published a related Modern Love column she wrote about dating when you have a child on the autism spectrum. Her short stories have appeared in the publications Lilith Magazine, JMWW, Commentary, Short Story Quarterly, Jewish Fiction, Jewish Quarterly, Heimat Review, the Jerusalem Post, and several anthologies published by Ang-Lit. Press.
A children’s book she wrote won an Honor Award in the 2023 Astra International Picture Book Writing Contest, sponsored by publishers in the U.S., China, Japan, Switzerland, and France. She was the script editor on Eytan Fox’s movie, Sublet and she has edited screenplays for many Israeli directors. She has lectured on Israeli cinema at New York University’s Tel Aviv campus. Born and raised in New York, she graduated from Swarthmore College and currently lives with her sons in Jerusalem.
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Snow White, starring Rachel Zegler in the title role and Gal Gadot as the Evil Queen, has generated controversies that have been covered extensively elsewhere over Zegler’s statements trashing the original film and saying the prince “literally stalks” Snow White;...