Elena Roerich

Perseguida, proscrita y exiliada, la legendaria cantante folclórica argentina, Mercedes Sosa, hizo temblar a los dictadores sudamericanos en los ’70. Apodada “La voz de los que no tienen voz”, Sosa se convirtió en un ícono de la democracia y una muy amada madre de América Latina. Mercedes Sosa – La voz de la esperanza expone la notable vida y carrera de Sosa y ofrece un perfil psicológico que revela el secreto detrás de su enorme impacto. Con su poderosa voz y su irresistible presencia en el escenario, la cantante folklórica argentina, Mercedes Sosa, era una intérprete de...

Dr. Luciano Jaramillo is one of the most important Biblical scholars in the Spanish-speaking world. His multiple contributions in the field of Bible translation have demonstrated him to be one of the most distinguished and relevant erudites of the 21st century. He served as secretary of the translation committee for the NVI (Nueva Version Internacional) translation, the most widely read modern Bible translation in the Spanish language. He is also the author of seven books on Biblical disciplines, theology, and devotional reflection and has served as pastor, professor at various Bible...

Thirty years ago Piri Thomas made literary history with this lacerating, lyrical memoir of his coming of age on the streets of Spanish Harlem. Here was the testament of a born outsider: a Puerto Rican in English-speaking America; a dark-skinned morenito in a family that refused to acknowledge its African blood. Here was an unsparing document of Thomas's plunge into the deadly consolations of drugs, street fighting, and armed robbery--a descent that ended when the twenty-two-year-old Piri was sent to prison for shooting a cop. As he recounts the journey that took him from adolescence in El...

En El viaje a Echo Spring, Olivia Laing examina la relación entre creatividad y alcohol a través de las obras y la vida de seis escritores extraordinarios: F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Tennessee Williams, John Berryman, John Cheever y Raymond Carver. Los seis escritores eran alcohólicos y la bebida asoma en sus páginas más conocidas, desde Un tranvía llamado Deseo a Suave es la noche, El nadador o París era una fiesta. A menudo bebían juntos: Hemingway y Fitzgerald iban de bar en bar por el París de los años veinte; y Carver y Cheever compartían borracheras en Iowa...