Author: Fred Russell

Fred Russell is the pen name of an American-born writer living in Israel. His novels Rafi's World (Fomite Press), dealing with Israel's emerging criminal class, and The Links in the Chain (CCLaP), a thriller set in New York with an Arab-Israel background, were both published in 2014. His stories and essays have appeared in Third Coast, Polluto, Fiction on the Web, Wilderness House Literary Review, Ontologica, Unlikely Stories: Episode 4, Gadfly, Cultural Weekly,Ragazine, In Parenthesis, etc.

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The Bletchley Circle

Fred Russell15 May, 201523 March, 2015

The Bletchley Circle is an enormously popular British miniseries about four women who worked as codebreakers in World War II…

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A Little Rant About News Broadcasting

Fred Russell16 January, 201521 January, 2015

Here in Israel we do not get to see American commercials on cable TV. On the American news networks, what…

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Old Movies

Fred Russell28 July, 20144 August, 2014

Now that my cable provider has gotten ahold of a batch of old Samuel Goldwyn movies, no doubt at a…

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Education in America – The O’Reilly Factor

Fred Russell1 May, 20141 May, 2014

Bill O'Reilly has discovered that Americans are ignorant "about their own country." He told us so not too long ago,…