It is said that history is written by the winners. Soldier of the Cuban Revolution: From the Cane Fields of Oriente to General of the Revolutionary Armed Forces, by Luis Alfonso Zayas, presents events of the Cuban revolution through the... Read More

Scott Gaille, in his second novel, The Unmerciful Lawyer, presents a beguiling tale of marital infidelity, international financial fraud, and unrequited love. The lawyer-mystery writer has cleverly whetted readers’ appetites with a... Read More

The Federalist Papers were newspaper articles published between October 1787 and May 1788 in New York by Andrew Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay. These essays were written to convince state voters to ratify the newly written United... Read More

In his essay “Memoir,” for the New York Times Book Review section last January, Neil Genzlinger called for “A moment of silence, please, for the lost art of shutting up,” thus beginning a terse review of four recently published... Read More

In the Acknowledgements section at the end of the novel "Deed So", author Katharine A. Russell says: “I mourn the lost Maryland of my childhood…With each passing year, Washington grows outward, erasing more and more of what was... Read More

Among the bookstores’ crowded cookbook shelves, Patricia Lewis Mote’s Great Menus: Seasonal Recipes for Entertaining should clearly standout. “Patsy,” as she signed her introduction, has assembled an easy-to-follow guide to meal... Read More

There are 49,000 people and 80,000 sheep that call the Faroe Islands home. They populate this small group of jagged rocks located in the North Atlantic Ocean about half way between Iceland and Scotland. People have lived in the Faroe... Read More

“Nieuw Haarlem” was taken from the American Indians by the Dutch in 1658, who, in turn, lost it to the British in 1664. Being more parsimonious in their use of vowels, the British renamed the place “Harlem,” and it has been so... Read More