Daily Caravaggio: The Denial of St. Peter
Late Caravaggio tells story of a biblical scene with a few gestures In his later paintings, Caravaggio was a master of suggestion, letting the story of the scene emerge from the darkness in its most...
View ArticleDaily Caravaggio: Nativity with Saints Francis and Lawrence
On the run Caravaggio painted a work that’s now on FBI Most Wanted list Caravaggio’s Nativity with St Francis and St. Lawrence is one of the FBI’s Top 10 Most Wanted works of art. It was stolen from a...
View ArticleCaravaggio inspires Pope Francis
Pontiff cites Caravaggio’s finger of Jesus pointing at him The painting that first truly made Caravaggio‘s reputation was The Calling of St. Matthew, one of three works about the saint he completed for...
View ArticleGroove to the DeltaFourth theme tune
Middle East chaos and a cool retro sound Take Shaft, Hawaii Five-Oh, and the theme from Mission Impossible, add a nutso Israeli Prime Minister and a murdered Palestinian president — and you’ve got the...
View ArticleMy chat with Tom Clancy
Master of techno twists and turns dead. Or is he? It’s hard to imagine that Tom Clancy, who died this week, was only 66. He had been at the top of the thriller game for so long. The Hunt for Red...
View ArticleLiad Shoham’s new thriller focuses on Israeli life beyond the Arab conflict
The first English translation of Israel’s top crime novelist Liad Shoham has been the most successful Israeli crime writer for some years now. Lineup, the first of his books to appear in English, has...
View ArticleArafat poison stories show need for a new kind of journalism
Journalism needs a new way to handle a world run by corrupt oligarchs, megacorporations and others who’ll just lie through their teeth Along with my The Murder of Yasser Arafat co-author Matthew...
View ArticlePizza Bomber: the shocking FBI case that reads like a thriller
Exciting true crime from a top FBI investigator Jerry Clark is a retired FBI Special Agent who now teaches at Gannon University in Pennsylvania. He was lead investigator on one of the most fascinating...
View ArticleSwiss scientists: Arafat was murdered
Net closes around Palestinian president’s killers It’s 11 months since I published The Murder of Yasser Arafat with co-author Matthew Kalman. We reported that Palestinian leaders in the immediate...
View ArticleIsrael tv on The Murder of Yasser Arafat
Matt on Israel tv talks about polonium in Arafat’s bones
View ArticleTravel with kids: Tips, hot spots, and do nots in Jerusalem on great new site
A great new site Seven Suitcases features my musings on what to do with kids when travelling in Jerusalem. There are already a few posts on the site — yes, it hasn’t officially launched yet — from...
View ArticleMozart’s Last Aria
Get the UK edition. Get the US edition. Download the audiobook. It’s 1791 and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is enlightenment Vienna’s brightest star. But six weeks ago, the great composer told his wife he...
View ArticleA Name in Blood
THE MYSTERY OF ITALY’S MOST CONTROVERSIAL PAINTER: CARAVAGGIO. Rees illuminates with sensitivity the hitherto dark portrait of one of the world’s most influential artists. –Daily Mail A superb tale of...
View ArticleThe Vienna of ‘Mozart’s Last Aria’
Mozart died in his apartment on Rauhenstein Lane. The house is gone. But stand with your back to the department store now there and you see just what he’d have seen: Ballgasse, named for the indoor...
View ArticleBehind the book: Mozart’s Last Aria
In 2003 I took a break from covering the violence of the Palestinian intifada to travel to Austria and the Czech Republic with my wife. I had seen some terrible things and lived through some dangerous...
View ArticleMe and St. Catherine: Why Matt wrote about Caravaggio
On the upper floor of the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza in central Madrid, I wandered into a broad room where the masterpieces were arrayed like chocolates in a box. Just as with an assortment of sweets, I...
View ArticleThe Caravaggio works featured in A Name in Blood
Here are some of Caravaggio’s works featured in my novel A NAME IN BLOOD: The three “Matthew” paintings in the French church made Caravaggio’s reputation. His chiaroscuro technique is most evident in...
View ArticleOn Caravaggio’s trail: Tracking the artist from Rome to Naples and Malta
I went all over Europe and North America, tracking Caravaggio’s works and the places that touched his life. But in particular to Rome, Naples and Malta. On one of my Rome sojourns, an exhibition showed...
View ArticleForging Caravaggio: Matt’s versions
About the time Caravaggio was painting his masterpieces in Italy, Miguel de Cervantes observed that “Good painters imitate nature. Bad ones spew it up.” Forging seems to me more accurate than...
View ArticleNablus: City of ‘The Samaritan’s Secret’
Nablus is my favorite Palestinian town. Yet when I set my third novel The Samaritan’s Secret in Nablus, I discovered many Westerners had never heard of it. Here are some of the locations I used for the...
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