Padre Pío

Many of Ronald Reagan's ways were not only unusual, but seem to contradict his others. Some authors are so perplexed by his nature they are reluctant to even assign intelligence to his mentality. They suspect he operated on everything from instinct to hunches to gut feelings and guesses. Lawrence Nesbitt's six years of extensive research has revealed a single psychological key that makes sense of the anomalies and contradictions. He has uncovered a powerful and nearly unique mindset that directed almost all of Reagan's conduct then and causes the confusion now. This unusual belief also...

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...

Desde su infancia en el Buenos Aires de la mítica dupla Perón-Evita, pasando por su estadía en la República Dominicana de Trujillo, la Lima del general Odría, el París de la década del sesenta de De Gaulle y sus años en el exilio en Italia hasta su regreso a Chile, dan cuenta estas páginas llenas de recuerdos e historias.

Tras más de un siglo de historia, el Premio Nobel de Literatura aparece envuelto en la polémica desde el momento en que Jean-Paul Sartre lo rechazara en 1964. Descubra las razones por las que el Nobel comenzó a politizarse y ser considerado un arma ideológica. La polémica, la consideración del premio como "un elemento burgués", las grandes figuras que quedaron fuera y la adaptación del premio a las corrientes dominantes de los intereses socioeconómicos globales. La incorporación de la figura femenina, cada vez más presente en parcelas que antes le estaban vetadas. Un viaje...