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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...

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Daily 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...

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Caravaggio 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...

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Groove 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...

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My 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...

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Liad 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...

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Arafat 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...

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Pizza 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...

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Swiss 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...

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Israel tv on The Murder of Yasser Arafat

Matt on Israel tv talks about polonium in Arafat’s bones

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Travel 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...

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Mozart’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...

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A 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...

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The 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...

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Behind 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...

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Me 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...

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The 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...

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On 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...

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Forging 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...

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Nablus: 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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