K M Lapointe: 2 books

She raced down a long stone corridor and opened a large door at the end, racing down narrow spiral steps, the heat of fire bearing down on her and making her breathing ragged. She opened another door and blackness consumed all light, the overwhelming sensation of falling and then nothing.... She...

Yucatan has been called “a world apart”—cut off from the rest of Mexico by geography and culture. Yet, despite its peripheral location, the region experienced substantial change in the decades after independence. As elsewhere in Mexico, apostles of modernization introduced policies intended...