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Dietario: Atenas arde y no es la llama olímpica

José de María Romero Barea

Dietario, de Benito del Pliego. Amargord, Madrid, 2015. Prólogo de Eduardo Milán. Benito del Pliego (Madrid, 1970) no es una, sino varias personas: el escritor de protesta, el poeta lírico…

SWINGS

COLUMPIOS

EDUARDO MITRE

Fearful that the last sunbeams will leave and they will be alone again ..............................................they keep scratching the twilight swinging higher and higher together in the same bear of joy ..............................................look…

La arquitectura de la guerra permanente

Pablo Piceno

El tenue rededor del mundo (Conaculta, 2015)¸ de Julio Eutiquio Sarabia El sepulcro es su morada perpetua  y su casa de edad en edad,  aunque hayan dado nombre a países. …

A House of My Own: Stories from My Life

David D. Medina

Virginia Woolf needed a room of her own in which to write. Sandra Cisneros needed a house, a silent house that would offer a space to imagine, to think, to…

¿Quién le teme a Donald Trump?

Miguel Cane

En las últimas semanas, el precandidato a la presidencia de Estados Unidos, Donald Trump, ha causado más revuelo en medios y redes sociales, que en las últimas tres décadas juntas.…

MARIO VARGAS LLOSA on Capricorn 1985-1991

MARIO VARGAS LLOSA

Fernando Castro R.

In the spring of 1985, the Rice University Department of Spanish and Portuguese invited Peruvian novelist Mario Vargas Llosa to deliver two lectures: “The culture of freedom” and “The total…

A la sombra de MUÑOZ VARGAS

Paul Medrano

Jaime Muñoz Vargas es mi escritor de culto en México. A comienzos del año 2000, cuando junto con mi palomilla leímos El principio del terror (Joaquín Mortiz, 1998), quedamos prendados…

Being Multifocal

Ser multifocal

Julian Baggini

Not so long ago, you could have described the job of science and philosophy as the pursuit of truth without anyone even raising an eyebrow. Now, many people believe that…

Like a New Sun

Eliot Weinberger

The arrival of the Spaniards in Mexico has often been compared to the appearance of extraterrestrials (more exactly, extra-terrestrials before the age of science fiction, before we began to imagine…

Presentación del libro BLIND SPOT

Literal

Literal Publishing ,  Rice University  y P&W se complacen en invitarlos a la presentación y lectura de poemas y lectura dramatizada del libro Blind Spot de Gerardo Cárdenas. Esperamos poder…

Happiness

Andrés Neuman

My name is Marcos. I have always wanted to be Cristóbal. I don’t mean I want to be called Cristóbal. He is my friend; I was going to say my…

Millennials: Our Jobs and Our Future

Literally Everything

Employment amongst millennials: education, politics, a little bit of high school... Literally Everything discusses a recent article by Leah McGrath Goodman on Newsweek about this generation's unemployment in America. Follow us…