The WholeWideWorld decodes the riddles of the new race, the new map, the post-Cold War 21st Century system known as "globalization," through the voices of artists, economists, refugees, and historians and plain folk.
In Jamaica, West Africa and Southeast Asia in the past year, he has been developing a new local-global conversation, WideWorld, for broadcast and Internet transmission on his website, christopherlydon.org.
She coordinated international news coverage for the Christian Science Monitor's start-up international news program "World Monitor" during the revolutions in the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe.
We once believed that the world was packed, wingtip to wingtip, with invisible and omnipresent angels whispering the word of God to His entire creation, leaning through our skulls to speak to our souls.
Our protagonist is a man at the end of his career, measured more by his failures than successes, called in on his day off to pick up evidence at a particularly brutal crime scene that involves the use of video cameras and the theft of computer hard drives.
True to the best detective novels, this work is as much a character study as an investigation of a crime, and the world the author has created is grounded in a depth of realism, psychological insight and detail representing the best of both genres blended.