Mario Benedetti

Octavio Paz en su siglo es a la vez biografía y crítica literaria, la obra de madurez de uno de los más conocidos ensayistas hispanoamericanos de nuestro tiempo. Entre la moral de las convicciones y la moral de la responsabilidad, intelectual liberal que no renuncia a sus visiones libertarias y socialistas, Octavio Paz (1914-1998) fue una figura esencial en la transición democrática de México, siempre en controversia con nuestros «dictadores constitucionales» como con la izquierda latinoamericana, voz insustituible entre el movimiento estudiantil de 1968 y la revuelta neozapatista de...

The memoirs of Ariadna Efron have informed all important studies of Marina Tsvetaeva’s writing and are indispensable to a complete understanding of her life and work. Never before translated into English, these memoirs provide the insider’s view of Tsvetaeva’s daughter and "first reader." No Love Without Poetry gives us Efron’s wrenching story of the difficulty of living with genius. The hardships imposed by early twentieth-century Russian political upheaval placed incredible strain on her already fraught, intense relationship with her mother. Efron recounts the family’s travels...

Científicas de Acá busca visibilizar a las mujeres que trabajaron y trabajan haciendo ciencia y tecnología en la Argentina. Por eso contamos historias de laboratorio y de territorio, de todas las regiones y épocas. Historias que cambian la historia.

The Texas refinery town of Leechfield, perched on the swampy rim of the Gulf, is famous for mosquitoes and the manufacture of Agent Orange - a place where the only bookstores are religious ones and the restaurants serve only fried food. A handful of the Leechfield oil workers gather regularly at the American Legion Bar to drink salted beer and spin long, improbable tales. They're the Liars' Club. And to the girl whose father is the club's undisputed champion mythmaker, they exude a fatal glamour - one that lifts her from ordinary life. But there are other lies. Darker, more hidden. Her...