Terry Teachout has provoked me to thought (much to the consternation of DarkoV — but what has he done for us lately?) with this list of 10 American novels he wishes he'd written. It's a rather oddly constructed exercise. The first question screaming to b

A decision could come as early as Tuesday afternoon in the case of Jamshid Muhtorov (M

Your turkey and home might explode from risky gas fryers

When it comes to Israel, advice is never in short supply. It’s doled out steadily by diplomats, scholars, editorial writers, columnists, you name it. The onset of the so-called Arab Spring – in actuality, it more closely approximates an Islamic Winter –

Turkish people like to boast about their hospitality. They enjoy being thought of abroad as having a culture that takes pride in opening its doors to everyone. However, there are times when hospitality turns into hostility. Sometimes things break out int

In light of the argument between Tayyip Erdogan and Paul Auster about the relative freedoms of Turkey and Israel, I thought it would be instructive to quote from a Hebrew language profile of Auster published (of all places) in Yisrael HaYom. Unfortunatel