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Below, D. A. Mishani continues where he left off yesterday: wondering about the evolution of popular literary genres in Israel ...

So why is it so difficult to write a detective novel in Israel? Aren’t we supposed to be a literary culture that ...

I turned 50. It wasn’t supposed to happen to me. I do yoga. I moisturize. I still fit into the ...

How I came to read The Hound of the Baskervilles when I was only 8   My fascination with detectives started very ...

My paternal grandparents lived across from a canal in Long Beach on Long Island. We went to their house every ...

When I was researching my last novel, my friend Michael Rohatyn found a book at the Strand he thought I might ...

When I was twenty, I met a charming elderly man on a train in Greece who told me I looked ...

I recently attended my friend’s father’s memorial. It was held at the Faculty House of Columbia University in a perfectly ...

“The schools would fail through their silence, the Church through its forgiveness, and the home through the denial and silence ...

“It is obvious that the war which Hitler and his accomplices waged was a war not only against Jewish men, ...

Gluckel of Hameln was an intrepid businesswoman, a mother of twelve children, a passionate wife, and a memoirist. She died ...

“Justice is better than chivalry if we cannot have both.” -Alice Stone Blackwell   The Internet is a tricky beast. ...