‘Patria’ by Laurence Blair review
In Patria: Lost Countries of South America, Laurence Blair explores nine nations, dissolved or imagined, and what they tell us about Latin America.
Daniel Rey
‘Liberty’s Grid’ by Amir Alexander review
Liberty’s Grid: A Founding Father, a Mathematical Dreamland, and the Shaping of America by Amir Alexander explains how the grid system put the United States on the map.
The Gospel of J. Edgar Hoover by Lerone A. Martin review
J. Edgar Hoover, director of the FBI from 1924 to 1972, thought the Bureau’s mission was to defeat the godless forces of liberalism, feminism and civil rights.
Broad Church
Soaring and swooping through a history of Catholicism, from 1789 to the present day.
Cuban Perestroika
Tracing the decline of socialism through the lives of ordinary Cubans.
‘I Embrace You With All My Revolutionary Fervor: Letters 1947-1967’ by Che Guevara review
I Embrace You With All My Revolutionary Fervor: Letters 1947-1967 by Che Guevara collects the deft epistolary prose of the self-styled prophet.
Just a Book?
The story of Thomas Jefferson’s bible, his own version of the Gospels.
Castro’s Honeymoon
Holding court to the world in a hotel in Harlem.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer: A Modern Martyr
Dietrich Bonhoeffer was one of the earliest establishment figures to denounce the Nazi regime. In April 1945, his quiet resistance led him to the scaffold.
Escape to Mexico
Filmmakers, revolutionaries, Iranian shahs – Mexico has a long history of providing political asylum.