A death foretold
In March 2014 Gabriel García Márquez went down with a cold. The man who wrote beautifully about ageing was approaching…
Could street protests finally topple Cuba’s communist regime?
Could the growing tide of protests finally topple Cuba’s communist government? Many Cubans are certainly angry: Sunday marked the largest-ever demonstration against…
Crazy cricket
Cricket in Latin America sounds like an oxymoron. Yet in almost every country in the region willow was hitting leather…
It’s time to scrap the Best Actress Oscar award
If you tune in to the Oscars during the early hours of Monday morning, you’ll note – along with sickly…
Cross purposes
Two millennia ago, in the outer reaches of the empire, the Romans performed a routine execution of a Galilean rebel.…
The value of suffering
A death sentence, prison in Siberia, and chronic epilepsy. The death of his young children, a gambling addiction, and possible…
A fatal clash of civilisations
Many books claim to describe junctures that changed the world but few examine ones as consequential as Conquistadores: A New…
Cricket’s Faustian pact
Imagine an archetypal English scene and it’s likely you’re picturing somewhere rural. Despite losing fields and fields each year to…
