These books confront readers with the recent past and distant future, bring them to southeastern Africa and an alternative Japan, and bedeck their pages with subversive cartoons and lush landscapes.

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Her debut album, Little Girl Blue, was deemed a commercial failure, but it helped to establish Simone as a stunning new voice for American jazz. In subsequent years, Simone managed to break into the ...

It’s like discovering your mild-mannered neighbor secretly won a James Beard Award – the unassuming exterior belies the culinary prowess within. Clinton itself maintains that quintessential island ...