cover image Distant Neighbors

Distant Neighbors

Alan Riding. Vintage Books USA, $4.95 (563pp) ISBN 978-0-394-74015-7

A former Mexico City bureau chief for the New York Times, Riding shows himself to be a sympathetic, informed observer of the complex changes wracking Mexican society and is especially insightful about recent political and economic turbulence and the tension between the Mexican majority and the ""Americanized'' minority. PW called Riding's analysis ``broad, absorbing and up-to-date.'' January