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I’m interviewed on Israeli tv about my new ebook PSYCHOBIBI: Who is Israel’s Prime Minister and Why Does He Want to Fail?.

My new alternative publishing venture DeltaFourth was featured on Michael Patrick Shiels’ Michigan Big Show. Listen to the interview with me — about Barack Obama’s Israel visit, DeltaFourth, and the Israeli Prime Minister we call Psychobibi.

The Jerusalem Post highlights the investigation by my new alternative news venture DeltaFourth into Yasser Arafat’s murder. JPost writer Rachel Marder interviews me about The Murder of Yasser Arafat and writes that Matthew Kalman and I have a “compelling explanation [for] the 75-year-old leader’s death near Paris in November 2004 based on years of reporting [...]

Israel tv highlights THE MURDER OF YASSER ARAFAT in this interview. I wrote the book with Matthew Kalman for our alternative news venture DeltaFourth.

Jon Friedman‘s first book was what you might expect from a young financial-markets journalist. Published in 1993, “House of Cards” was a fast-paced story of the blunders at American Express during the 1980s, including smear campaigns, duff accounting, and a CEO whose name was synonymous with hubris (until, in recent years, hubris became the official [...]

I stopped in at Radio Wales to meet the delightful Roy Noble, who has had a show every afternoon for a couple of decades. We chatted about my new Caravaggio novel A NAME IN BLOOD, as well as MOZART’S LAST ARIA and my Palestinian crime series. Listen here — the interview starts 12 minutes into [...]

Matt interviews Matthew Kalman, editor of The Jerusalem Report. The Report is a highly reputed magazine covering the Middle East and the Jewish world. It gained a wide readership during the 1990s, but in recent years has been a little, ahem, dull (more on that from the new editor himself). An experienced British journalist, Kalman [...]

Machiavelli wrote that “Wars begin when you will, but they do not end when you please.” That’s certainly true of the Six-Day War of 1967. When fired upon in Jerusalem some months after the passage of those six days, Graham Greene commented that it was perhaps an inaccurate name for the conflict. Indeed the battle [...]

Largehearted Boy, the fabulous music and literature blog run by David Gutowski in New York, includes me in its illustrious series of “Book Notes” interviews. David asked me to pick the “soundtrack” to Mozart’s Last Aria, my historical mystery about the death of the great composer. Naturally much of the music is by Wolfgang. But [...]

The hottest new voice in crime fiction is Jasmine Schwartz. Her great debut “Farbissen” and its follow-up “Fakakt” have earned plaudits for her and for her detective, neurotic New York fashionista Melissa Morris. The books have been called “Bridget Jones with guns and dead bodies.” But Jasmine’s no Renee Zellweger softie, as you’ll see from [...]