Historia y biografías
Letters Home
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Letters Home represents Sylvia Plath's correspondence from her time at Smith College in the early 1950s, through her meeting with, and subsequent marriage to, the poet Ted Hughes, up to her death in February 1963. The letters are addressed mainly to her mother, with whom she had an extremely close (...)
Words & Pictures
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Words and Pictures explores three fascinating examples of relationships between artists and writers: the illustrations of Paradise Lost and Pilgrim s Progress; Hogarth and Fielding, a writer and artist dealing with common material; Wordsworth and Thomas Bewick, a poet and engraver working (...)
Re-make/Re-mode
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Michael Bracewell is the author of six novels and two works of non-fiction, including the much acclaimed England Is Mine. His writing has appeared in The Penguin Book of Twentieth Century Fashion Writing and The Faber Book of Pop, and he has written catalogue texts for many contemporary artists, (...)
Custody
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When Shagun leaves Raman for another man, a bitter legal battle ensues. The custody of their two young children is thrown into question and Shagun must decide what price she will pay for freedom… Meanwhile, Ishita, a failed marriage behind her, finds another chance at happiness with Raman. But when (...)
Three Miles
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Leeds, 1940: a city on fire. On the night of the Luftwaffe's fiercest bombardment, Captain Abraham Matthews has finally caught up with Albie Crowe, the champion of a gang of petty thieves and professional plunderers who he has been intent on snaring these past six months. Holed up in a brick (...)
The Naive and the Sentimental Novelist
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Orhan Pamuk, is the author of many celebrated books, including The White Castle, Istanbul and Snow. In 2003 he won the International IMPAC Award for My Name is Red, and in 2006 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. His most recent novel, The Museum of Innocence, was an international (...)
Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast
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Why does every society around the world have a religious tradition of some sort? Professor Lewis Wolpert investigates the nature of belief and its causes. He looks at belief's psychological basis and its possible evolutionary origins in physical cause and effect. Wolpert explores the different (...)
Katherine Anne Porter y la revolución mexicana
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Las visitas a México que la autora llevó a cabo resultaron determinantes para el desarrollo de su carrera literaria. El estudio se centra en el análisis del papel del discurso revolucionario en el proceso de desilusión característico de los relatos mexicanos de Porter, en los que descubrió un (...)
A Dog Named Slugger
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The true life story of a dog who changed everything for one woman. For the first time in my life, I didn't need to pretend, I didn't need to be tough: I only needed to be honest. "I have cerebral palsy. I walk funny and my balance is bad. I fall a lot. My hands shake, too. That means I'm not so (...)
Milagros de Nuestra Señora
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Los prodigios divinos son percibidos dentro de la idea medieval del vasallaje. Tal vez la literatura religiosa hagiográfica que después se escribió en España tenga su origen en esta figura del vasallo que alucina en medio de sus rituales de sumisión ante su señor o el mismísimo Dios. Este texto se (...)