Genres

  • Writing a Silence

    NON FICTION, 2023

    Claudia Piñeiro

    «I suspect that what I write is born of silence. That is how it has been since I was a child: from silence to writing. From resistance to speech and the pleasure of constructing a...

  • Baumgartner

    NOVEL, 2023

    Paul Auster

    Paul Auster's brilliant eighteenth novel opens with a scorched pot of water, which Sy Baumgartner -- phenomenologist, noted author, and soon-to-be retired philosophy professor - has just forgotten...

  • Silence is Strong

    NON FICTION, 1980

    Elena Poniatowska

    The act of resistance far transcends the indignation with which it began. It is a means of going out to meet one's fate, a final, desperate demand for justice. Migrants who come to the big city to...

  • Ciruela

    YOUNG ADULT NOVEL, 2023

    Pablo De Santis

    To get into Gong School, Ciruela must past a very difficult entrance exam. When she goes back to get the results, the Assistant Headteacher Valpurgia Cameron tells her that due to an...

  • Flying Pieces of Paper

    SHORT STORIES, 2014

    Elena Poniatowska

    Good stories always bring something of ourselves into play. Their chameleonic properties are both exuberant stimulation and the ultimate expression of our imagination, which refuses to let the...

  • The Seven She-Goats

    NON FICTION, 2000

    Elena Poniatowska

    Wonderful, fierce, crazy to some and unique to all, these artists, painters, writers and muses forged lives of passion, sensitivity, commitment and pain. Frida Kahlo and her mutilated body on the...

  • You Come at Night

    SHORT STORIES, 1979

    Elena Poniatowska

    In the story that lends its name to this collection, the ease with which Esmeralda - who has just been exposed as a bigamist - carries herself stuns an agent from the Public Ministry who can't...

  • The Bad Girl Rounds

    POETRY, 2008

    Elena Poniatowska

    There comes a time in life when games and songs lose their innocence. An educated but mischievous girl who plays the piano, practices fencing and fights with her sister endures a traumatic...

  • Children of the Days

    NARRATIVE, 2021

    Eduardo Galeano

    Did you know that supposedly the most famous episode in Genesis, featuring Adam, Eve and the apple, doesn't actually appear in the Bible? That the Greek mathematician Eratosthenes measured the...

  • The New Old Age

    NON FICTION, 2023

    Pacho O'Donnell

    Reaching old age isn't a privilege we all get to enjoy, but thanks to recent scientific advances more and more people are finding that it's a period of life that can be especially creative,...

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