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When 50 Happens to Good People: Part Two
Ok, so I hadn’t done time in prison, I’d just spent one day there. I’d just covered what was believed ...
Detective Fiction and the Zionist Cultural Revolution
Below, D. A. Mishani continues where he left off yesterday: wondering about the evolution of popular literary genres in Israel ...
The Mystery of the Hebrew Detective: The Investigation Begins
So why is it so difficult to write a detective novel in Israel? Aren’t we supposed to be a literary culture that ...
When 50 Happens to Good People: Part One
I turned 50. It wasn’t supposed to happen to me. I do yoga. I moisturize. I still fit into the ...
The Mystery of the Hebrew Detective
How I came to read The Hound of the Baskervilles when I was only 8 My fascination with detectives started very ...
Assimilation and Romanticizing the Past
My paternal grandparents lived across from a canal in Long Beach on Long Island. We went to their house every ...
The Jews of Poland: Recollections and Recipes by Edouard de Pomiane
When I was researching my last novel, my friend Michael Rohatyn found a book at the Strand he thought I might ...
An Insult and a Very Jewish Conversation
When I was twenty, I met a charming elderly man on a train in Greece who told me I looked ...
The Memorial
I recently attended my friend’s father’s memorial. It was held at the Faculty House of Columbia University in a perfectly ...
Shame, Truth, and Reconciliation
“The schools would fail through their silence, the Church through its forgiveness, and the home through the denial and silence ...