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A fascinating tour through notes, data, and anecdotes from both on and off the screen offers close-ups of such talented actors as Marlon Brando, Paul Newman, Alain Delon, Robert Redford, Steve McQueen, Brad Pitt, George Clooney, Antonio Banderas, and Javier Bardem, among others.

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...

It's a pretty long story, Primo Levi tells a classroom of children, so I'll try to make it simple. This hauntingly illustrated comic tells the story of the Italian Jewish chemist who survived the camps at Auschwitz against all odds. Matteo Mastragostino draws on historical research, interviews, and Levi's own landmark books to piece together a fictionalized yet profoundly intimate portrait of a courageous figure. In the scene that emerges, Levi visits a group of schoolchildren to retell his life story and keep the memory of the Holocaust alive, answering innocent questions with hard truths....

Entre La Habana y Miami retrata una de las sociedades más divididas del mundo a través de decenas de historias. Como la del balsero Raúl, que llegó al Cayo Marquesa nadando con su mujer a la espalda, la del coleccionista de arte Roberto Ramos, que salió una noche de Cuba con sus cuadros escondidos en un bote, o la de Leonardo y Betty, una pareja que se mantiene unida por Skype. El libro da la voz a cubanos de las dos orillas del estrecho de Florida, el brazo de mar que separa –y que une– Estados Unidos y Cuba. Una orilla es la de los exiliados y emigrantes que, desde el triunfo de la ...