“THE MEASURE” by Nikki Erlick
What will happen if one day everybody in the world who is at least twenty-two years old will receive a box? The box, the same size and the same material for everybody, will have not only the name of the receiver…
What will happen if one day everybody in the world who is at least twenty-two years old will receive a box? The box, the same size and the same material for everybody, will have not only the name of the receiver…
You would think that when you retire in your 70s, after forty years of marriage, four kids, and a good business, you will have a good life. Joy and Stan (the main characters of Liane Moriarty’s latest novel “Apples never fall”)…
“The Greeks sail, and take my hope with them. I cannot follow. I am tied to this earth where my ashes lie. I curl myself around the stone obelisk of his tomb. ACHILLES, it says, and nothing more. He has gone…
“- My name is Elizabeth Zott, and this is SUPPER AT SIX.” Hands on her hips, her lips outlined in Brick Red, her thick hair pulled back in a simple French twist secured with a number-two pencil, Elizabeth leveled her gaze…
“Erika knew surprisingly little about the Orthodox Church, most of her understanding coming from a single conversation she’d had in the eighties with a Romanian informer who had come to Vienna to discuss the terms of his employment. The professor had…
Even if they were twin sisters and lived together, Rose and Fern had different memories of their childhood. “When we were five, my mother took my sister, Rose, and me to the library every day for a year. <<A better education…
“Dear Scotty, Your car was my favorite place to be. I don’t know if I ever told you that. It was the only place we could get true solitude. I’d get in your car and it was like feeling all the…
“But hang around any court for a while and you will see just how precarious life can be. How your world can come tumbling down all too rapidly if you make the wrong call. If, just for one, fatal split second,…
“The Court has succeeded in extraditing a well-known jihadist who stood accused of four counts of crimes against humanity and five counts of war crime. The authorities surrendered him earlier that day, and he was being transported to a plane as…
Tahereh Mafi, one of my favorite writers, is reinterpreting an Iranian fairy tale in her new book “This woven kingdom.” What I really liked about this story, besides the craft of Tahereh’s written words, was the teachings that I believe should…
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