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From Her Dad To Her 'Jamish' Roots, A Poet Pieces Her Story Together

Author Interviews

From Her Dad To Her 'Jamish' Roots, A Poet Pieces Her Story Together

Salena Godden grew up in 1970s England with a Jamaican mom and an absent Irish dad. In her memoir, Springfield Road, she looks back on her struggle to find her personal identity.

From Her Dad To Her 'Jamish' Roots, A Poet Pieces Her Story Together

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A 'Post-Post-Colonial' Take On The Violent Birth Of Modern Jamaica

Marlon James' previous books include The Book of Night Women and John Crow's Devil. Jeffrey Skemp/Courtesy of Riverhead Books hide caption

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Author Interviews

A 'Post-Post-Colonial' Take On The Violent Birth Of Modern Jamaica

Marlon James' latest novel, A Brief History of Seven Killings, is not brief, and it contains many more than seven deaths. It's a portrait of Jamaica in the '70s, when gang warfare and reggae reigned.

A 'Post-Post-Colonial' Take On The Violent Birth Of Modern Jamaica

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Don't Be A Jerk. There's A Lot More To Island Cooking

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Don't Be A Jerk. There's A Lot More To Island Cooking

Drawing on a history both savory and sweet, two sisters are reintroducing Caribbean cooking to the world beyond the islands. And they'd like to make one thing clear: It's not just about jerk spice.

Don't Be A Jerk. There's A Lot More To Island Cooking

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Online Donors Send Jamaican Bobsled Team To Sochi

The two-man Jamaican bobsled team will be heading to Sochi, Russia, for the 2014 Winter Olympics, after a fundraising campaign gave a much-needed boost to its budget. Jamaican Bobsled Team hide caption

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Online Donors Send Jamaican Bobsled Team To Sochi

After word spread that Jamaica's two-man bobsled team had qualified for the Olympics but didn't have money to go to Russia, Internet donors stepped in — even contributing in Dogecoin, the peculiar digital currency.

World Headlines: NSA Spying In Spain; Jamaica Eyes Pot Law

The U.S. ambassador to Spain, James Costos, leaves the Spanish Foreign Ministry after being summoned to a meeting in Madrid on Monday. He was called in following reports that the NSA was tracking millions of phone calls in Spain. Juan Medina/Reuters /Landov hide caption

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Parallels

World Headlines: NSA Spying In Spain; Jamaica Eyes Pot Law

Also, a former South African minister was briefly detained in New York, apparently owing to an outdated terrorist watch list. And India assesses security in the aftermath of deadly blasts that targeted an opposition party.