Lecturas a través del espejo es un libro que recupera la mirada de Victoria Mora sobre la obra de algunos autores que considera insoslayables para cualquiera que ame la literatura.
Dass die Wüste ein karger und trostloser Ort sein soll, entlarvt Mary Austin in ihrer erstmals 1903 erschienenen Naturkunde des US-amerikanischen Südwestens als bloßes Vorurteil: In vierzehn Vignetten schildert sie das Land of Little Rain des Death Valley und der Mojave-Wüste als ein Reich von harscher Schönheit, in der sowohl Menschen als auch eine vielfältige Tier- und Pflanzenwelt nicht nur überleben, sondern sich den widrigen Umständen hervorragend angepasst haben.
En un trasfondo durativo de lo todavía reciente, en una elaborada distancia de acontecimientos que torcieron el rumbo de nuestra realidad –la crisis de 2001-, se dibujan los contornos de este libro, que plantea interrogarse sobre el acontecer, es decir, sobre una temporalidad no clausurada, que tiene mucho del andar, del modo –imperfecto- en que se entrelazan, en todo análisis, los tiempos de la historia, de la escritura y de la lectura.
Named one of 12 of the Best Jewish Books of the Year by theJewish Telegraph Agency,New York Jewish Week, &Jerusalem Post2023 International Book Awards Finalist in the Humor/Comedy/Satire CategoryFrom a bilingual master of the literary memoir comes this moving and humorous story of losing immigrant baggage and trying to reclaim it for his American future.
2021 FIRECRACKER AWARD FINALISTFEATURED IN PUBLISHERS WEEKLY's "e;STILL HERE, STILL QUEER: LBGTQ BOOKS 2020"e;FEATURED IN BOOK RIOT'S "e;INDIE PRESS ROUND-UP: 10 GREAT NEW RELEASES FOR SUMMER"e;Pass with Care is a testament to trans resilience, queer joy, and the power of finding freedom and adventure within a community of your own creation.
Figura central da vanguarda cultural brasileira do início do século XX, a influência de Mário de Andrade ecoa até os dias atuais na vida intelectual brasileira.
Utilizando los célebres 7 ensayos de Mariátegui como pretexto y punto de partida, el antropólogo norteamericano Shane Greene arriesga siete interpretaciones de la realidad del rock subterráneo peruano de los años ochenta y noventa, atendiendo a la relación entre el punk y la violencia política de la guerra interna, al papel que el Estado y los grupos subversivos le atribuyeron a los punks peruanos y a la forma como estos mismos se autopercibieron durante dicha época.
Descubra quiénes están detrás de algunas de las figuras más legendarias del arte, la política, la ciencia y la tecnología en este fascinante compendio de hechos históricos y datos biográficos.
La gente se pregunta por qué la novela es la forma literaria más popular; la gente se pregunta por qué se lee más que los libros de ciencias o los libros de metafísica.
The recollections and yarns, historical meditations and reportage brought together in Mountain Blood display a sensibility formed by the harsh, outlandishly beautiful terrain of the American West.
Posthumously published in 1864, The Maine Woods depicts Henry David Thoreau's experiences in the forests of Maine, and expands on the author's transcendental theories on the relation of humanity to Nature.
Set primarily in Mexico and the American Northwest, yet equally at home with Achilleus on the Trojan plains or with Walt Whitman in his New Jersey home, these fifteen essays pass back and forth across international boundaries as easily as they cross the more fluid lines separating past and present.
Every existence has its pulse points,"e; writes Ted Leeson in this latest book, "e;those places where life rises somehow closer to the surface and makes itself more keenly felt.
The questions that drive Priscilla Long's Fire and Stone are the questions asked by the painter Paul Gauguin in the title of his 1897 painting: Where Do We Come From?
In Keywords for Southern Studies, editors Scott Romine and Jennifer Rae Greeson have compiled an eclectic collection of new essays that address the fluidity of southern studies by adopting a transnational, interdisciplinary focus.
This literary anthology celebrates the history and romance of Coney Island with works by some of the 19th and 20th centuries' greatest authors and poets.
A writer for whom the journey has always mattered reinvents the very form itself in this inviting collection of in-the-moment impressions of his journeys A writer of enormous erudition and wide-ranging travels, Claudio Magris selects for this volume writings penned during trips and wanderings over the span of several decades.
"e;A genial exercise in public philosophy"e; (Kirkus, starred review) from one of the world's best-known popular philosophers"e;Simon Critchley is an international treasure that rare and real philosopher who embraces Rousseau's 'Aofeeling of existence,' David Bowie's vision of love, and Philip K.
A collection of the best music writing and cultural criticism from one of the most influential music journalists of his day The co-founder of Rolling Stone magazine, Ralph J.
Since its beginnings, Open Spaces has been on the cutting edge of thinking about the Pacific Northwest - an intelligent, provocative, beautifully conceived magazine for thoughtful readers who are searching for new ways to understand the region, themselves, and many of the major issues of our time.
A leading European intellectual reflects on the changing concept of melancholy throughout history Alberto Manguel praises the Hungarian writer László Földényi as “one of the most brilliant essayists of our time.
An extraordinary collection of revealing, personal interviews with fourteen jazz music legends During his nearly forty years as a music journalist, Ralph J.
The first book to bring together the key writings and speeches of civil rights activist Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander-the first Black American economist In 1921, Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander became the first Black American to gain a Ph.
Faith and the Historian collects essays from eight experienced historians discussing the impact of being "e;touched"e; by Catholicism on their vision of history.
Until the 1980s, a common narrative about women in China had been one of victimization: women had dutifully endured a patriarchal civilization for thousands of years, living cloistered, uneducated lives separate from the larger social and cultural world, until they were liberated by political upheavals in the twentieth century.
Rewriting the Supreme Court's landmark gay rights decision Jack Balkin and an all-star cast of legal scholars, sitting as a hypothetical Supreme Court, rewrite the famous 2015 opinion in Obergefell v.
