Houston, Texas (Image credit: Courtesy image) The library in this 2006 Tudor Revival has richly carved dark wood book coves, a cornice, a fireplace and diamond-paned leaded windows. The four-bedroom house features period-appropriate pocket doors, coffered ceilings, and inlaid-wood floors; a grand staircase and window seats; a primary suite withContinue Reading

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In the 1960s, a revolutionary literary movement burst on to the global publishing scene in what would become known as the Latin American boom.  The international success of authors like Colombia’s Gabriel García Márquez, Argentina’s Julio Cortázar and Peru’s Mario Vargas Llosa brought Latin American fiction to the literary forefrontContinue Reading

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What happened? “Oppenheimer” was the big winner at Sunday’s Academy Awards, picking up seven Oscars, including best picture, best director (Christopher Nolan), best actor (Cillian Murphy) and best supporting actor (Robert Downey Jr.). Emma Stone won best actress for “Poor Things.”  Who said what? “Probably I will be the firstContinue Reading

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Uninhabited until the Portuguese arrived in 1471, the equatorial African island of Príncipe has a dark history as a slaving hub and a “place of exile for the desperados of Portuguese society: convicts, heretics and outcasts”. Today, it is “poor but paradisiacal”, says Catherine Fairweather in Condé Nast Traveller, itsContinue Reading

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