Members of the Scribe
What We Talk About When We Talk About Book Dedications
I knew I was going to dedicate my first novel, Antonia Lively Breaks The Silence , to my maternal grandparents ...
Making the Invisible Visible: The Bildungsroman and the Jewish Woman
A young man leaves his home and sets out on a journey. He is impressionable, sensitive, and inexperienced in the ...
Introducing Inspector Avraham Avraham
I can honestly say I was concerned by this “Mystery of the Hebrew Detective,” mainly before and after writing the ...
Can a Policeman be an Israeli Hero?
I’ll try to summarize the new problem of writing a detective in Hebrew in a simple way. The biography of ...
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 ...