Claudia Moscovici
29.05.2017
He cheated on me with one of his students
Chapter 6 Karen drove back home, her eyes clouded by tears. She entered her parents’ house and headed straight for the refrigerator. A therapeutic gallon of chocolate swirl ice cream awaited her [...]
22.05.2017
You Drive Me Crazy!
Chapter 5 In the days following the blowup with Karen, Michael took a short break from his hyperactive sex life. He made a genuine effort to miss his fiancée. He remembered Karen’s patience. The [...]
15.05.2017
A precedent for the Holocaust: The Armenian genocide and „The Promise”
As Peter Balakian points out in the Preface of his book, The Burning Tigris: The Armenian genocide and America’s response (New York: Harper Perennial, 2004), the Holocaust had a significant [...]
08.05.2017
A Knot of Jealousy
Chapter 4 (you can read Chapter 3 here: Fiery, Lovely Eyes) Michael returned home from the bachelor party around 4 a.m. As soon as he stepped into the living room, he noticed that the red light [...]
01.05.2017
Fiery, Lovely Eyes
Chapter 3 “So did I choose well or did I choose well?” asked Alain Boulanger, a Frenchman whose last name sounded very seductive to American women: until, that is, they learned it meant “baker”. [...]
24.04.2017
A First-Class Experience: CEO Paul Glantz re-Emagines Movie Theaters
Ten years ago, many thought that movie theaters would go by the wayside, the way the video rental industry has. With the rise in popularity of Netflix (founded in 1997), Hulu (founded in 2007) [...]
17.04.2017
Survivors Club: A Family’s Legendary Tale
Michael Bornstein’s Holocaust survival story is the stuff that legends are made of. A few years ago, Bornstein ran across a photo taken from footage taken by Soviet troops of the recently [...]
10.04.2017
The Capacity to Hypnotize a Man
Chapter 2 Michael walked briskly towards the Department of French and Italian. Since he was running late, he rushed into his office without stopping to banter, as usual, with fellow graduate [...]
03.04.2017
What if Tolstoy was wrong?
Chapter 1 All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way Lev Tolstoi, „Anna Karenina” What if Tolstoy was wrong when he said that all happy families are alike while [...]
27.03.2017
An Insatiable Longing for Love
– The Seducer and Anna Karenina – Psychopathic seducers, as social predators, target countless victims. But they attach like parasites, for a long time, to comparatively few: only to [...]
