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Pensar con detenimiento en medio de la velocidad, defender la buena vida contra la hostilidad del ambiente, ironizar en la cultura del cinismo. Para vivir hay que resistir... con elegancia. Esa es la situación ética de Autoayuda para snobs, el primer libro de Daniel Molina. Si el autor –que le ha dado la vida a la lectura– se ha tomado su tiempo para ofrecer por fin su inteligencia, sus reflexiones contra la corriente, su sabiduría vital y su gracia para contar historias es porque el libro de un lector de algún modo se hace solo. El resultado es un ensayo literario de guarda (en el...

"What is a face, really? Its own photo? Its make-up? Or is it a face as painted by such or such painter? That which is in front? Inside? Behind? And the rest? Doesn't everyone look at himself in his own particular way?" With these words, Pablo Picasso described the revolutionary methods of painting and artistic perspective with which he challenged the ways people and the world were defined. His life was a similarly complex prism of people, places, and ideologies that spanned most of the twentieth century. Acclaimed scholar Mary Ann Caws provides in Pablo Picasso a fresh and concise...

En septiembre de 2010, Daniel Domscheit-Berg escribió sus últimas líneas como portavoz de WikiLeaks en un chat en el que anunciaba que se iba. Atrás habían quedado unos años muy intensos, ?los más intensos de mi vida?, puntualiza el propio...

Many thought of her as Queen Nancy. Others as the Dragon Lady. But for millions of Americans, Nancy Reagan was the always-smiling and deeply admiring presidential spouse who stood by her man; that image lingers still in the touching picture of a bereaved widow at her husband's casket. Nancy Reagan has stirred passionate defenders and acerbic critics in many books and the media. James Benze, however, is the first biographer to discuss the effect of her acting background on her tenure as first lady. Unlike earlier biographers, he focuses on the way she applied her acting skills to meet the...