"Do they have skyscrapers?" a London acquaintance innocently asks Tom Feiling, recently returned from Colombia. Short Walks from Bogotá sets out to unravel Colombia's complexities for those who have ...
Like it or not, there is something about cocaine that excites the imagination. Not so much its chemical effect, which invariably leads to blabbering self-absorption, but more its social legend.
The Drug Enforcement Administration Museum and Visitors Center may be America’s most uninspiring attempt at war commemoration. Its low-budget displays, stuffed into a sterile building near the ...
Feiling, a documentary filmmaker who has done much work in Colombia, turns to the country’s main illegal export. (In the opening chapter, we learn about the original 19th-century coca use: “The modern ...
Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. The Candy Machine: How Cocaine Took Over The World By Tom Feiling Allen Lane £9.99, 320 pages FT Bookshop price: ...
Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. In 2040, just a decade and a half from now, the list of 10 most populous countries in the world is likely to ...
Documentary filmmaker and author Feiling (The Candy Machine) explores centuries of transatlantic life through this vignette-driven history of Providence, an island near Nicaragua that has been ...
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