From "zopa naranja" to "potaje escondido", that's how great-great-grandmothers cooked in Mexico.
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El remake cinematográfico de It, la novela de terror de Stephen King, ha vuelto a poner de moda en las librerías el género de horror. Merece la pena conocer algunos de los maestros de la novela de crimen y suspense que salen de América Latina.
El escritor chileno Alejandro Zambra cree que la literatura sigue generando cosas nuevas a pesar del contexto actual, marcado por los desastres naturales, el impacto de las redes sociales y la estupidez humana.
Seen as a symbol of Feminism in Mexico, acclaimed Mexican novelist Angeles Mastretta admits she is active on the social networks and writes practically every day, even when she doesn't have any ideas for a possible new novel.
Peruvian writer Diego Trelles presented his new book "The Infinite Procession", a political novel that explores the backdrop of post-dictatorship Peru.
El poeta llegó a México con sus padres cuando tenía 15 años, tras la caída del ejército republicano en la guerra civil española. Considerado uno de los máximos exponentes de la poesía y el pensamiento mexicanos, Xirau fue, según su amigo Octavio Paz, "un puente entre América y Europa."
Liu Xiaobo, Nobel Peace Prize winner in 2010, suffered from an aggressive cancer at age 61 while in prison.
Liu Xiaobo, Premio Nobel de la Paz en 2010, padecía de un agresivo cáncer a los 61 años, mientras estaba en prisión.
The 63-year-old author is known for his opposition to Israel's occupation of Palestinian territories and his support of the peace process. His son Uri was killed fighting in the 2006 Israel-Hezbollah conflict.
In his book "La Guerrilla Inmolada," retired Bolivian General Gary Prado Salmon analyzes Guevara's downfall while serving with a guerrilla group in Bolivia almost 50 years ago.
Alfredo Molano's new book, "De Rio en Rio" (From River to River) is a "look at the black territories" along the Pacific, among the most forgotten but hardest hit by Colombia's armed conflict.
Peru's best-selling author Santiago Roncagliolo is in Bogota to present his Alfaguara prizewinning novel "La Noche de los Alfileres" (Night of the Pins). Violence is very present in his work and particularly Peru's armed conflict.
Coincidiendo con el 50 aniversario de la muerte del Che, el hermano menor del líder revolucionario, Juan Martín Guevara, publica Mi hermano el Che, un libro de recuerdos familiares que humaniza y reactualiza al gran mito revolucionario de la izquierda.
Jonathan Allen y Amie Parnes publicaron la semana pasada Shattered, inside Hillary Clinton’s doomed campaign, un amargo retrato de la fracasada carrera de Hillary Clinton a la Casa Blanca.
In “Shattered,” journalists Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes portrait Clinton's campaign as a Titanic-like disaster: an epic fail made up of a series of perverse and often avoidable missteps by an out-of-touch candidate and her strife-ridden staff that turned “a winnable race” into “another iceberg-seeking campaign ship.”
El 23 de Abril se celebra el Día Mundial del Libro, coincidiendo con la fecha de la muerte de Cervantes y Shakespeare. La celebración tiene su origen en la fiesta de Sant Jordi, una tradición centenaria catalana que ha ido popularizándose con el tiempo, en la que los enamorados se regalan un libro y una rosa respectivamente.
De madre inglesa y padre americano, Julianne Pachico creció en Cali, Colombia, en un ambiente marcado por las fuertes diferencias sociales y el miedo a la guerrilla pero también por el calor y el afecto de la gente colombiana. Siete años después, la escritora publica The Lucky Ones, una novela de relatos cortos que ha sido aclamada por la prensa de Estados Unidos por ser un fiel retrato de la violenta realidad del país en los últimos veinte años.
For over a decade Stephen Purvis had been a pillar of Havana's expat community, one of many foreign businessmen investing in Cuba's crawl from Cold War communism towards modernity. But for reasons unknown to him he was also under State Security's microscope. One morning during the height of President Raúl Castro's purges in 2012, he was arrested and taken away into the absurd and brutal world of Cuban justice.
La obra de Derek Walcott, fallecido a los 87 años, ha estado marcada por tres elementos fundamentales: su patria caribeña, la lengua inglesa y su origen africano.
Born in Saint Lucia in 1930, he was regarded by critics as one of the greatest Caribbean poets.
En El Monje y el Filósofo, el célebre pensador francés Jean-François Revel dialoga con su hijo para entender los motivos que le llevaron a abandonar su brillante carrera científica y convertirse en monje budista.
Fernando Aramburu is a poet, essayist and novelist born in 1959 in San Sebastian, Spain. To date he has published more than twenty works and has received several important prizes, including the Prize of the Royal Academy and the Mario Vargas Llosa NH Prize in 2008 for his collection of short stories, Los peces de la amargura (The Fish of Bitterness). But his biggest critical and editorial success has been due to his latest novel, Patria (Home Country), chosen as the book of the year by ABC Cultural, now on its ninth printing with over 100,000 copies sold.
En "Open. An Autobiography", el tenista André Agassi relata sin tapujos la historia de una vida marcada por un padre obsesionado por transformarle en el número uno del tenis.
La periodista y empresaria portorriqueña Miriam Ramírez acaba de publicar Qué rayos quiero hacer con mi vida, un libro dirigido a orientar a la juventud latina en la selección de su carrera profesional. Tras el asesinato de su marido, Ramírez se dedica a un negocio de agricultura sostenible en el sur de Puerto Rico.
Former President George W. Bush’s first book of oil paintings, “Portraits of Courage,” appears in bookstores today. Bush has weighd in on Trump's presidency, calling the media 'Indispensable To Democracy'
New photobook Palazzos of Power explores the neoclassical grandeur of these artifacts of the early electric age
