El Bordon

Juanita Reina no era solo una tonadillera, sino una verdadera actriz dramática. Su voz, su ademán y sus dotes expresivas hicieron que la copla, la tonadilla, cobraran un lucimiento total.

Compiles the stories of Mexico's best-known criminal women of the past two centuries, including the young heiress who killed her newborn to avoid dishonor and went to a dance immediately thereafter, and the beauty queen who murdered her unfaithful husband.

"What is a face, really? Its own photo? Its make-up? Or is it a face as painted by such or such painter? That which is in front? Inside? Behind? And the rest? Doesn't everyone look at himself in his own particular way?" With these words, Pablo Picasso described the revolutionary methods of painting and artistic perspective with which he challenged the ways people and the world were defined. His life was a similarly complex prism of people, places, and ideologies that spanned most of the twentieth century. Acclaimed scholar Mary Ann Caws provides in Pablo Picasso a fresh and concise...

"I hope that this anthology of Spanish writers in the US will serve as a forerunner to future academic studies on a literary body of work that, although heterogeneous and varying, stands as a key and indivisible part of contemporary Spanish literature.” -Gerardo Piña-Rosales. The anthology contains prose and poetry from, among others, the author, José Luis Ponce de León, Ana María Facundo, Manuel Durán, Carlos Perellón, and Jesús Torrecilla.