Robert Siegel talks with Rodney Broome about his book Terra Incognita, about the origins of the word America. Broome challenges the idea that the name came from the Italian explorer Amerigo Vespucci.

‘Egyptians want what Americans have, they want freedom. [US President Barack] Obama needs to tell [Egyptian President Hosni] Mubarak, ‘You are not leaving in September, you are leaving now; we ...

In the film Zero Dark Thirty, one of the CIA men in Pakistan tells his station chief, in regard to the hunt for Osama bin-Laden, “We don’t know what we don’t know.” To which the chief ...

That the show is not hung chronologically or by generation, however, may give some trouble to the Terra`s regular visitors, whom one does not expect to be acquainted with locally produced ...

Attempting to deal with the psychological aftermath of the Lebanese civil war and the destruction of Beirut (as the film notes, for the seventh time in its history), "Terra Incognita" traces the ...

Predicting the future is never easy, but as I contemplate what 2012 might bring, I confess that it’s never been harder. In 2005, it was fairly easy to see that commodity prices would rise in the ...

Murray himself has admitted that his clay-court game hasn’t really measured up; the red dirt remains terra incognita. Murray did reach the semifinals at Roland Garros in 2011 (l. to Nadal ...