Isabel II y la mujer en el siglo XIX

Inmersa y dispersa a lo largo de más cincuenta años en columnas periodísticas, suplementos de cultura y revistas académicas, concebida en forma de prólogos, conferencias, homenajes, respuestas a debates y encuestas, una parte significativa de la producción crítica de Abelardo Oquendo (1930-2018), aquella vinculada exclusivamente a la literatura, aparece por primera vez reunida en Abelardo Oquendo: la crítica literaria como creación. Quien lea estos textos constatará rápidamente la voz de un crítico exigente y agudo, sensible y dispuesto a reconocer méritos y aciertos, así como...

Frank Sinatra! Marilyn Monroe! Never before teamed in a book, yet theirs was a seven-year friendship and on-and-off intimate relationship shrouded in secrecy and fraught with danger. Frank Sinatra and Marilyn Monroe—here is the first book to bring these two all-American icons together. Their friendship and on-and-off intimate relationship, kept secret because of powerful others in their lives, spanned seven tumultuous years. At one point, he even proposed marriage. In Frank & Marilyn, we follow Sinatra and Monroe from one explosive relationship to another, their marriages and love affairs...

Gershom Scholem (1897–1982) was ostensibly a scholar of Jewish mysticism, yet he occupies a powerful role in today’s intellectual imagination, having influential contact with an extraordinary cast of thinkers, including Hans Jonas, Martin Buber, Walter Benjamin, Hannah Arendt, and Theodor Adorno. In this first biography of Scholem, Amir Engel shows how Scholem grew from a scholar of an esoteric discipline to a thinker wrestling with problems that reach to the very foundations of the modern human experience. As Engel shows, in his search for the truth of Jewish mysticism Scholem molded the ...

El 4 de marzo de 1977, horas después de recibir el primer ejemplar de su hoy emblemática novela ¡Que viva la música!, el caleño Andrés Caicedo se suicidó con sesenta seconales. Tenía 25 años.