Un grito desde el silencio

They have been complex in recent years for Chile, especially if we add corporate corruption and the discrediting of republican politics and institutions to the erosion of the government projects of the Concertación and the New Majority. Therefore, during a year of elections, critical reflection on the representativeness of the Poder Legislativo and, especially, the one hundred and twenty "honorable" representatives that allow or impede changes in our country become urgent. In this detailed and no less ironic analysis, the journalist Nancy Guzmán bares with humor what each deputy does and...

Constantinopla, de Edmondo De Amicis, es el mejor de los libros escritos sobre Estambul en el siglo XIX. Orhan Pamuk, (Estambul, ciudad y recuerdos), Premio Nobel de Literatura 2006.

Figura notable de las letras mexicanas y universales, poeta, humanista, dramaturgo, ensayista, fundador de importantes instituciones culturales. Alfonso Reyes cultivó a lo largo de su vida el amor por la civilización y la literatura francesa.

Amiga lectora, amigo lector, tal vez usted tenga en sus manos un ejemplar de este librito atraído por un título que conjuga dos palabras que sólo en el juicio de un desquiciado podrían conciliarse. Pues bien, para que usted y yo podamos entendernos o no, pero sobre todo para que quede claro de qué estoy hablando, permítame decirle, en primer lugar, que no se trata de un libelo. Nada más lejos de mi interés que pretender denigrar o infamar a mi país, ni a mi gentilicio. Tampoco es un escrito satírico que aspira ponerlo en ridículo y desde luego, ni muchísimo menos un texto de...

"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...