The Revenge: Witness to a Murder
Chloe Bradshaw is 13. She counts Darren Shan as one of her main writing influences. Her favourite subjects at school are Drama, History, and English. This is the first installment of "The Revenge,"...
Category: Books
God’s Crucible: A Review
This is a review of God's Crucible: Islam and the Making of Europe, 570-1215, by David Levering Lewis. W.W. Norton. 2008 Islamic presence in Spain between the 7th and 14th centuries has long been...
Peanut Butter and Magic
Why did I eat that doughnut? Why? What possessed me? I knew it looked sketchy, all sealed up in that plastic bag with a giant smiley face stamped on the front. My innards are so not smiling. Why...
A Possible Peace Between Israel and Palestine: A Review
This is a review of A Possible Peace Between Israel and Palestine: An Insider's Account of the Geneva Initiative by Menachem Klein, translated by Haim Watzman. Columbia University Press. 2007. We are...
People of the Book: a review
This is a review of Zachary Karabell's People of the Book: The Forgotten History of Islam and the West. John Murray. 2007. In Samuel Huntington’s The Clash of Civilizations, the author envisioned...
From Prostitution To Geneva’s Parliament
I first met Nicole Castioni at the International Book Fair in Geneva, Switzerland. She was signing copies of her bestseller, Le Soleil Au Bout De La Nuit (The Sun at the End of the Night) - ed. Albin...