John Paul II's maestro remembers his deep spiritual friendship with the pope.

In early April 1980 the Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe met the Harlem-raised James Baldwin ldquo for the first and sadly last time rdquo at the annual meeting of the African Literature Association held that year in Gainesville Fla Both men happened to arrive to the conference a day late pus

A review of short stories by the African Jesuit, Uwem Akpan