Tom van Laer tom.vanlaer@sydney.edu.au Follow @narratologic tom.vanlaer@sydney.edu.au Tom van Laer is an Associate Professor of Narratology at the University of Sydney. Most Recent Everything in Mecca gets 5 stars — and Online Reviews of Other Holy Sites are Wildly Inflated, Too Tom van Laer Latest Articles 1 Israel’s War on Hunger: Starvation as a Weapon in Gaza by Sarah Neumann 2 The Drone That Shook the Bomb: Ukraine Shreds Nuclear Deterrence by Alex Mazzone 3 Iran Shoots Back—and the West Loses Its Mind by Binoy Kampmark 4 Noodles, Debt, and Deference: Trump s China Charm Offensive by Tom Clifford 5 The Sultan’s Shadow: Erdogan’s Middle East Ambitions Tested by Gerald Walker