Seeking to Understand the World: Literary Journalism of Vincent Sheean

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Este libro pretende ser un retrato íntimo del Caudillo. Francisco Franco Martínez-Bordiú, nieto del Caudillo, ha decidido romper su silencio y hablar por primera vez de los aspectos íntimos y desconocidos del entorno familiar que rodeaba a Franco, con el que mantenía una relación de afecto. Un documento en el que es posible ver a Franco jugando al mus con sus amigos, cazando cachalotes y ballenas, filmando bailes de flamenco en Nochevieja o tratando de atisbar el 'rayo verde' desde la cubierta del Azor.

Martin Fierro, the argentine poem, has been subject to numerous ideology biased interpretations. This appropriation, sometimes outrageous, has spurred the discussion whether Martin Fierro or Domingo F. Sarmiento's Facundo should be considered in orderto bring the Argentine society into a just, peaceful civil terrain. To read Quiroga Lavie's biography of Jose Hernandez means delving into the mind of an earnest, law abiding scholar, that nevertheless falls into the same trap of romanticizing the roguish characteristics with complete disregard of the fact that Martin Fierro's advise to his sons, ...

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...