PW spoke with the bestselling author about her new picture book, which has received a starred review from PW, in which a young girl makes a deep connection with a peanut vendor in her native Cuba ...

Amid these tensions, the world witnessed other critical events: the Cuban Missile Crisis unfolded in October 1962, bringing ...

The commune as both an end and a means in Venezuela’s socialist project and the dialectics between government and popular power.

Recently, the US and Israel – against the rest of the international community – succeeded in keeping a 63-year blockade of ...

Businessman and philanthropist Bill Gates will take part in the Dallas Museum of Art’s Arts and Letters Live series, joining ...

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Stanley Kubrick wasn’t exactly known for being a laugh riot — although he did originally intend Eyes Wide Shut to be a Steve ...

Sam Nujoma was president of Namibia from 1990 to 2005, founder in 1960 of the South East Africa People's Organisation (Swapo) and of the national liberation movement that achieved independence from ...

Following the Cuban Revolution of 1953–1959 ... so much as it is the fault of the system under which he lives.” However, as I argue in my book, McQueen’s adaptation emphasizes the cruelty of ...