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Una leyenda de 500 años. Una maldición antigua. Un asombroso misterio médico. Y un viaje de descubrimiento al corazón ignoto de la selva más densa del mundo. Desde los días de Hernán Cortés han circulado rumores sobre una ciudad perdida con inmensas riquezas escondida...

Learning to Drive • Now a major motion picture starring Patricia Clarkson and Ben Kingsley Celebrated for her award-winning political columns, criticism, and poetry, Katha Pollitt now shows us another side of her talent. Learning to Drive is a surprising, revealing, and entertaining collection...

Something has changed. After the horrors of World War II, people everywhere believed that it could never happen again, but today the evidence is unmistakable that anti-Semitism is dramatically on the rise once more. The torching of European synagogues, suicide terror in Israel, the relentless...

John Updike’s memoirs consist of six Emersonian essays that together trace the inner shape of the life, up to the age of fifty-five, of a relatively fortunate American male. The author has attempted, his Foreword states, “to treat this life, this massive datum which happens to be mine, as a specimen...

Una provocadora y perspicaz diatriba sobre la maternidad y el papel de la mujer en la sociedad Un ángel maléfico recorre impune nuestras conciencias: es el mensajero de la procreación. En esta diatriba Lina Meruane examina el retorno de este "ángel" que, amparado en la...

América Latina y su riqueza en palabras de William Ospina. #Nuestra América es todavía el reino de la perplejidad, y a ello contribuyen por igual las tensiones y los desajustes entre la realidad y el lenguaje, los mestizajes y los sincretismos. No deja de ser asombroso que estas tierras...

In this elegant and affectionate biography of one of the most controversial personalities of the nineteenth century, Barbara Belford breaks new ground in the evocation of Oscar Wilde's personal life and in our understanding of the choices he made for his art. Published for the centenary of Wilde's...

Al mismo tiempo reúne dieciséis ensayos y conferencias escritos en los últimos años de vida de Susan Sontag, una de las pensadoras y escritoras más importantes del siglo XX. «Un escritor es alguien que presta atención al mundo», expuso Susan Sontag en su discurso de aceptación del...

After the great success in 1990 of Darkness Visible, his memoir of depression and recovery, William Styron wrote more frequently in an introspective, autobiographical mode. Havanas in Camelot brings together fourteen of his personal essays, including a reminiscence of his brief friendship with John...

ASIO has kept a file on Frank Moorhouse since he was seventeen. Now Frank has decided it is time to report on ASIO. This year ASIO has extended its surveillance powers, made the issuing of warrants easier and limited the freedom of journalists. At a time when the government has raised the terrorist...

Some clear guidelines to navigate a rapidly changing world. Why has 'Mr Manners', David Meagher, decided to write another book on the subject? He abhors crude and crass behaviour, yet found himself getting mad at others and teetering on the edge of becoming one of the ill-mannered people he...

**“*Attention *reveals a fresh, vital literary voice as it covers seemingly every imaginable topic relating to modern life.”—Entertainment Weekly   ** “Joshua Cohen may be America’s greatest living writer.”—The Washington Post NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY WIRED One...

The magazine that is the city that is the world Just in time for its fortieth anniversary, New York magazine presents a stunning collection of some of its best and most influential articles, stories that captured the spectacle, the turbulence, and the cultural realignments of the past four...

Un extraordinario ensayo sobre literatura. En 2015 Javier Cercas ocupó en la Universidad de Oxford la cátedra Weidenfeld de Literatura Europea Comparada, honor en el que le habían precedido figuras como George Steiner, Mario Vargas Llosa o Umberto Eco; basándose en las conferencias allí...