“The STASI was the internal army by which the government kept control. Its job was to know everything about everyone, using any means it chose. It knew who your visitors were, it knew whom you telephoned, and it knew if your…
New York is a world in another world. The people who live in Manhattan represent a significant part of the wealthiest 1% of the richest in the world. Written by Wednesday Martin, an anthropologist with first-hand information about this particular world…
When I visited Singapore, I did not know about Lee Kuan Yew. The only things I knew were that it was a country with the Mussulman population predominantly, the economic growth was right and that the women were encouraged to work,…
I was extremely impressed by Barbara Walters’s career because she was the first female journalist in the USA that had her own talk show, but she was also the first female journalist that got one million dollars salary. We are talking…
I was in Berlin when I ate for the first time in a no-lights at all restaurant. As partially-blind waitresses served me, I realized what it means to be blind. And I lost my appetite, and I wanted to leave as…
“My name is Renée. I am 54 years old. For 27 years I have been the concierge at number 7, rue de Grenelle, a fine hôtel particulier with a courtyard and private gardens, divided into 8 luxury apartments, all of which…
When I read the book, I did not know that the main female character was based (more or less) on Laura Bush (the wife of the American president George W. Bush). I also did not know that the story of the…
My late father used to buy a lottery ticket every week, hoping that he would win a car. He never won. Once in a while, I buy a lottery ticket myself, thinking of my father’s habit. I don’t believe that I…
I loved the analogy between a family and a vineyard. Especially nowadays, in the era of technology, when nobody has the patience anymore to “cultivate” a relationship. Who, among us, has the patience to become friends before the marriage, who has the…
Tarryn Fisher has chosen to share with us the story of her divorce using fiction, and thus we have the novel “F*ck marriage”. Her truths about divorce (wisely mixed in the fictional couple’s story) made me very emotional, and also it…
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