Category Archives: Caribbean
The Hunting Season: The Execution of James Foley, Islamic State, and the Real Story of the Kidnapping Campaign That Started a War
On 19 August 2014, a member of the jihadist rebel group known as ISIS uploaded a video to YouTube. Entitled `Message to America`, the clip depicted the final moments of the life of kidnapped American journalist James Foley – and the gruesome aftermath of his beheading at the hands of a masked executioner. Foley`s murder
Roadfood: An Eater`s Guide to the 1,000 Best Local Hot Spots and Hidden Gems Across America
A cornucopia for road warriors and armchair epicures alike, Roadfood is a road map to some of the tastiest treasures in the United States.First published in 1977, the original Roadfood became an instant classic. James Beard said, โ€This is a book that you should carry with you, no matter where you are going in these
Fifty Things that Made the Modern Economy
Based on the series produced for the BBC World ServiceWho thought up paper money? How did the contraceptive pill change the face of the legal profession? Why was the horse collar as important for human progress as the steam engine? How did the humble spreadsheet turn the world of finance upside-down?The world economy defies comprehension.
America`s Great Game: The CIA`s Secret Arabists and the Shaping of the Modern Middle East
From the 9/11 attacks to waterboarding to drone strikes, relations between the United States and the Middle East seem caught in a downward spiral. And all too often, the Central Intelligence Agency has made the situation worse. But this crisis was not a historical inevitability–far from it. Indeed, the earliest generation of CIA operatives was
The Good Immigrant USA: 26 Writers on America, Immigration and Home
GUARDIAN MUST READ BOOKS OF 2019 `The you-gotta-read-this anthology` Stylist`This collection showcases the joy, empathy and fierceness needed to adopt the country as one`s own` Publishers Weekly An urgent collection of essays exploring what it`s like to be othered in an increasingly divided America. From Trump`s proposed border wall and travel ban to the marching
Sea Wife
`Taut as a thriller` Claire Messud `A gripping tale of survival at sea – but that`s just the beginning` Jennifer Egan`A smart, swift and thrilling novel` Lauren GroffFrom the highly acclaimed author of Schroder, a smart, sophisticated literary page turner about a young family who escape suburbia for a year-long sailing trip that upends all
City of Angels: or, The Overcoat of Dr. Freud
Three years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the writer Christa Wolf was granted access to her newly declassified Stasi files. Known for her defiance and outspokenness, Wolf was not especially surprised to discover forty-two volumes of documents produced by the East German secret police. But what was surprising was a thin green folder
The Widows` Adventures: A Novel
Two widows take to the road across America in this ambitious novel by Charles Dickinson. Helene, who is blind, does the driving. Her sister, Ina, shows the way, and together they break free into the light they feared had gone out of their lives. They cross a landscape whose dangers are secondary to the perilous
Wilde in America
On January 3, 1882, Oscar Wilde, a twenty-seven-year-old โ€geniusโ€-at least by his own reckoning-arrived in New York. The Dublin-born Oxford man had made such a spectacle of himself in London with his eccentric fashion sense, acerbic wit, and extravagant passion for art and home design that Gilbert & Sullivan wrote an operetta lampooning him. He
Charcuterie: The Craft of Salting, Smoking, and Curing
Charcuterie exploded onto the scene in 2005 and encouraged an army of home cooks and professional chefs to start curing their own foods. This love song to animal fat and salt has blossomed into a bona fide culinary movement, throughout America and beyond, of curing meats and making sausage, pates, and confits. Charcuterie: Revised and
The Book: A Cover-to-Cover Exploration of the Most Powerful Object of Our Time
In The Book, Keith Houston reveals that the paper, ink, thread, glue and board from which a book is made tell as rich a story as the words on its pages-of civilisations, empires, human ingenuity and madness. In an invitingly tactile history of this 2,000 year-old medium, Houston follows the development of writing, printing, the
Move: Putting America`s Infrastructure Back in the Lead
Americans are stuck. We live with travel delays on congested roads, shipping delays on clogged railways, and delays on repairs, project approvals, and funding due to gridlocked leadership. These delays affect us all, whether you are a daily commuter, a frequent flyer, an entrepreneur, an online shopper, a job-seeker, or a community leader. If people
These Truths: A History of the United States
The American experiment rests on three ideas-โ€these truthsโ€, Jefferson called them-political equality, natural rights and the sovereignty of the people. And it rests, too, โ€on a dedication to inquiry, fearless and unflinchingโ€, writes Jill Lepore in a ground-breaking investigation into the American past that places truth at the centre of the nation`s history. Telling the
America`s Musical Life:A History
America`s Musical Life: A History tells the fascinating story of music in the United States, from the sacred music of its earliest days to the jazz and rock that enliven the turn of the millennium. Beginning with the music of Native Americans and continuing with traditions introduced by European colonizers and Africans brought here as
Across the Pond: An Englishman`s View of America
Americans have long been fascinated with the oddness of the British but we, says literary critic Terry Eagleton, find our transatlantic neighbours just as strange. Only an alien race would admiringly refer to a colleague as โ€aggressiveโ€, use superlatives to describe everything from one`s pet dog to one`s record collection or speak frequently of being
Our America
The United States is still typically conceived of as an offshoot of England, with our history unfolding east to west beginning with the first English settlers in Jamestown. This view overlooks the significance of America`s Hispanic past. With the profile of the United States increasingly Hispanic, the importance of recovering the Hispanic dimension to our
St. Marks is Dead: The Many Lives of America`s Hippest Street
St. Marks Place in New York City has spawned countless artistic and political movements. Here Frank O`Hara caroused, Emma Goldman plotted and the Velvet Underground wailed. Ada Calhoun tells the โ€Fascinatingโ€ (Village Voice) many-layered history of the street-from its beginnings as a pear orchard to today`s hipster playground-organised around the pivotal moments when critics declared
The Shia Revival
One of America`s leading commentators on current events in the Middle East, Iranian-born scholar Vali Nasr brilliantly dissects the political and theological antagonisms within Islam in this โ€smart, clear and timelyโ€ book (The Washington Post). Still essential and timely ten years after its original publication, The Shia Revival provides an objective understanding of the 1,400-year
A Beauty That Hurts: Life and Death in Guatemala
Though a 1996 peace accord brought a formal end to a conflict that had lasted for thirty-six years, Guatemala`s violent past continues to scar its troubled present and seems destined to haunt its uncertain future. George Lovell brings to this revised and expanded edition of A Beauty That Hurts decades of fieldwork throughout Guatemala, as
