On the 50th anniversary of the Cuban Missile Crisis, Alex von Tunzelmann (author of Red Heat: Conspiracy, Murder and the Cold War in the Caribbean) talks about Ian Fleming's crazy idea and attempts at American sabotage in Cuba.
Few works of literature have idealized childhood so profoundly as Peter Pan. But the Llewelyn Davies brothers who inspired J.M. Barrie to create the world of Neverland would grow up to become “Lost Boys” of a more tragic sort, beset by misfortune and unhappiness.