Victorians were enamored of the new science of statistics, so it seems fitting that these pioneering data hounds are now the subject of an…
US launch of Shailja Patel’s ’Migritude’ Internationally acclaimed Kenyan poet, playwright and activist Shailja Patel has launched ’Migritude’ in the US. ’Part memoir, part…
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Booker prize-winner says claim about territory not being an integral part of India was a call for justice in the disputed region The Booker…
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At first glance, Mario Vargas Llosa’s novels seem like a one-man miscellany of subjects and styles: There are harrowing narratives based on historical events like…
The pace of modern African literature is faster, tone and style sexier and more defiant than the great generation of Independence writers. Hitherto taboo…
Three years ago, the International Monetary Fund was irrelevant, an object of derision for all opponents of globalization. Under director Dominique Strauss-Kahn and as…
SCHIPHOL, NETHERLANDS — Peter Rasenberg could not remember the last time he had read a book for pleasure. So it was with some bemusement…
I WASN’T always a lawyer or a novelist, and I’ve had my share of hard, dead-end jobs. I earned my first steady paycheck watering…