Waterloo author’s new projects
Karen Olsson, whose first novel made me yearn for Austin, tells Dwight Garner what she’s working on.
Karen Olsson, whose first novel made me yearn for Austin, tells Dwight Garner what she’s working on.
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The debate over a tomb some claim to be Jesus’ was reopened in Jerusalem last week. The tomb itself remains sealed.
On a graph of social relationships in the Bible, David & Moses have more contacts than Jesus. (Via.)
As a plot to kill Orhan Pamuk is foiled, an action by Turkey’s high court allows suits by martyrs’ families to proceed against him for insulting Turkishness.