by Janice Golding Climate change conferences are deeply concerning. Exorbitant hotel and restaurant bills, and air miles make one wonder whether they are not…
By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN LONDON burns. The Arab Spring triggers popular rebellions against autocrats across the Arab world. The Israeli Summer brings 250,000 Israelis…
By STEVEN ERLANGER AMSTERDAM — Anders Behring Breivik, the Norwegian who admitted to mass killings last month, was obsessed with Islam and had high…
States and cities had already endured a harrowing three-year financial slide when the debt-ceiling crisis darkened their outlooks even further. In the space of…
Please find attached new titles which have been made available during July 2011. Tendai Huchu’s novel The Hairdresser of Harare has been nominated for The Guardian’s Not the…
by Noam Chomsky “It is a common theme” that the United States, which “only a few years ago was hailed to stride the world…
i-Universe. 2010. 101 pp. Paper, $9.99. ISBN 978-1-4502-5141-9 Reviewer: Benjamin Kwakye It is remarkable that in only forty-nine poems, Peter W. Vakunta’s Martyrdom and…
Chuma Nwokolo Chuma Nwokolo revisits a childhood library and is shocked at its deterioration. ’It is great to have a completed central bank project…
by James Carroll THE LIQUIDATION of Borders Books, announced last week, is like the death of an unlikely friend – unlikely because Borders was…
Half of Africa’s one billion population has a mobile phone – and not just for talking. The power of telephony is forging a new…