Growing up in the slums of a politically volatile Caribbean island, Alexandre, dreaming of escape, takes a position as caretaker of a crumbling estate purchased by a wealthy foreign businesswoman and
Once an example of American industrial might, Detroit has gone bankrupt, its streets dark, its storefronts vacant. Miles of city blocks lie empty, saplings growing through the cracked foundations of a
"This collection of essays looks at politics in American fiction and fictional elements in American politics. Authors under consideration include Wiliam Dean Howells, Henry Adams, Robert Penn Warren,
