Returning home to Lagos In a TED Talk called “The Danger of a Single Story,” Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie describes what results in the false opinions we form about individuals, groups, races, cultures, religions, or places. She talks about her own life to explain how this form of tunnel vision affects our perceptions. Adichie was born…
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Crime writing and food is a classic combo It is well-known that detectives have healthy appetites. Of course, this is particularly true amongst European detectives, from Hercule Poirot and Inspector Maigret to Salvo Montalbano and Pepe Carvalho. But Sherlock Holmes, Nero Wolfe, or Philip Marlow, to name a few, are also connoisseurs of fine food.…
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The ancestor of crime and detective novels The Woman in White, written in 1859 by Wilkie Collins, was a hugely successful novel. It first appeared in a serial form in the All the Year Round, a British weekly literary magazine founded and owned by Charles Dickens, Collins’ friend, boss, and mentor. The serial’s success was…
Why I read O Jerusalem!, in Jerusalem It was in early 2001 that I left my life in the Australian suburbs behind me to live in Israel for one year. At the time, I was in between a lot of things. But mostly between closing my business and planning to open a new one. In…
