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This anthology features 14 essays by Paul Diederich, including eight unpublished ones, on transforming American schools. His work spans social justice to daily schedules, blending utopian ideas with practical solutions, reflecting his admiration for Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson.

MIAMI -- In 1965 British author Graham Greene arrived in the Dominican Republic fresh from neighboring Haiti, where he witnessed firsthand the \"unique evil\" of Haiti's brutal dictator, Francois \"Papa Doc\" Duvalier.

United States foreign policy is challenged by the authors in the same vein as Lederer in Our Own Worst Enemy. The authors believe that the introduction of Marines as military advisors in the early sixties was not in the best interest of the Haitian peoeple. It is inferred that the Marines were not attuned to the situation within the country while they were there.

\"Cuando vi la figura alta y delgada de [Graham Greene] dirigiéndose a la aduana, sus ojos azules escrutando el aeropuerto con un asomo de sospecha, me pregunté si, en realidad, él tenía el poder de cambiar [Hait]í\", escribió [Bernard Diederich] en un nuevo libro, Seeds of Fiction, Graham Greene's Adventures in Haiti and Central America 1954-83\".

Tom Wolfe tells the Browser that his new book, Hooking Up , will contain not only his celebrated Sixties critique of the New Yorker but also 'My Three Stooges', his savaging of John Updike, Norman Mailer and John Irving, who, in Wolfe-speak, are just 'piles of bones'. The Browser contacted Irving for a reaction, but he was unmoved. Wolfe's writing, he said, is 'journalistic hyperbole described as fiction'. When pressed, he said Wolfe's fiction was 'yak'.

Finally, \"La Fiesta del Chivo\" has been translated into English, adeptly, by Edith Grossman, as \"The Feast of the Goat.\" For [Mario Vargas Llosa]'s non-Spanish-reading fans, it's been well worth the wait. \"The Feast of the Goat\" should be a spellbinder even for those who know nothing about its subject -- the waning days of the [Rafael Trujillo] dictatorship in the Dominican Republic. In this case, Trujillo played on Dominicans' fears and racial prejudices toward black Haiti, which shares the island of Hispanola and at one point ruled the Dominican Republic. Other forces fed the beast. The United States nutured Trujillo, who was a young rural guard during the 1916 American occupation of the Dominican Republic. Washington later supported the strongman, seeing him as a valuable ally in the fight against communism. The Catholic Church also has its hand in Trujillo's rise to power. Yet real-life Joaquin Balaguer, a past Dominican president now in his 90s, proves to be the novel's most enigmatic character. Vargas Llosa presents Balaguer as a Caribbean \"I Claudius,\" who plays dumb to Trujillo's Caligula. Balaguer, a small, bookwormish man, survives in the snake pit -- he was Trujillo's minister of education and briefly his puppet president -- because he is perceived as a harmless little man. Balaguer proves everyone wrong.