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Estas páginas despiertan la simpatía y el afecto hacia la figura de la santa de Ávila, arrastrándonos, como si fuera la cosa más natural del mundo, hacia las cimas del amor a Dios.

Cuando el conde de Essex sucedió a su padrastro, el conde de Leicester, como el favorito de la reina Isabel I de Inglaterra, éste tenía veintiún años y ella, más de cincuenta. La soberana era autoritaria y exigente; su favorito, consentido y ambicioso, pero también inteligente y consciente de su privilegio. Esta insólita relación le viene al Lytton Strachey como anillo al dedo para desplegar su estilo sarcástico y retratar una astuta lucha por el poder con un sutil transfondo de sexualidad reprimida. Isabel y Essex es una de las aproximaciones más originales que se han realizado a...

The New York Times–bestselling author of The Keep tells the real and fictional origins of the mysterious man who battles criminals and the supernatural. In 1984, Repairman Jack debuted in F. Paul Wilson’s horror thriller The Tomb. Jack would go on to star in twenty-three novels, ten short stories, and a graphic novel. But how did the antithesis of James Bond and Jason Bourne get his start in the battle between good and evil? In this essay, Wilson lets his readers in on how his beloved hero came to be. Wilson begins his personal story after he scored a hit with The Keep, when he found his...