It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas: eggnog lattes, mince pies, inappropriate kissing of work colleagues. But nothing says Christmas like a Yuletide slasher movie, and there are more to choose from than you might think. Mostly, this is due to the slasher boom of the early Eighties, when low-budget film-makers sliced and diced […]
Monthly Archives: December 2013
Song of Ascent
Like Dreamers: The Story of the Israeli Paratroopers Who Reunited Jerusalem and Divided a Nation By Yossi Klein Halevi Harper, 608 pages When the 18th World Zionist Congress met in Prague in August 1933, delegates were asked to choose an official anthem for the Jewish national movement. The two main contenders were Naftali Herz Imber’s Hatikvah […]
