NON FICTION, 2023
«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...
NOVEL, 2023
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...
NON FICTION, 1980
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...
YOUNG ADULT NOVEL, 2023
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...
SHORT STORIES, 2014
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...
NON FICTION, 2000
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...
SHORT STORIES, 1979
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...
POETRY, 2008
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...
NARRATIVE, 2021
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...
NON FICTION, 2023
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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