La DRAM

Thirty years ago Piri Thomas made literary history with this lacerating, lyrical memoir of his coming of age on the streets of Spanish Harlem. Here was the testament of a born outsider: a Puerto Rican in English-speaking America; a dark-skinned morenito in a family that refused to acknowledge its African blood. Here was an unsparing document of Thomas's plunge into the deadly consolations of drugs, street fighting, and armed robbery--a descent that ended when the twenty-two-year-old Piri was sent to prison for shooting a cop. As he recounts the journey that took him from adolescence in El...

La biografía no autorizada de Sergio Massa, el candidato presidencial del Frente Renovador. Sus inicios en la política en la Ucedé, su ingreso al peronismo de la mano de Graciela Caamaño y Luis Barrionuevo, su paso por el menemismo, su gestión en la Anses. Su rol como jefe de gabinete de Kirchner y su fallido intento de desplazar a Bergoglio. Su gestión en Tigre.

Entre los procesos judiciales en curso y las sentencias dictadas por crímenes de derechos humanos en Chile, últimamente han salido a la palestra los denominados "cómplices civiles" de la dictadura: políticos, tecnócratas, jueces y empresarios de los más diversos rubros (forestal, minero, educacional, financiero, de las comunicaciones) que en esta audaz y completa investigación se presentan con nombre y apellido y que dan forma al perfecto puzle sobre el que se sentaron las bases para las reformas y privatizaciones que dibujaron el modelo que nos rige hasta hoy. Tirando del hilo de...

When his friend George Gershwin persuaded Vladimir Dukelsky to change his name to Vernon Duke, what the music world already knew became apparent to the public at large—the man had two musical personas—one as a composer, the other as a tunesmith. One wrote highbrow music, the other lowbrow. Yet the two sides complemented each other. Neither could function without the other. Born and classically trained in imperial Russia, Vladimir Dukelsky (1903–1969) fled the Bolshevik Revolution with his family, discovered American popular music in cosmopolitan Constantinople, and pursued his budding...