Pedro Segura

From a three room apartment in Brooklyn occupied by ten family members, Esmeralda Santiago begins a journey that is both a triumphant struggle for identity and independence and a mother's worst nightmare. Challenged by language barriers, cultural stereotypes, and the extremely protective Mami, Santiago continues the rollicking ascent she began in When I Was Puerto Rican. By day she perfects the role of Cleopatra at Performing Arts High School and interprets for the family at city welfare offices. At night she accompanies her mother and sister to Latin dance halls, but on such a tight leash...

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...

These compiled works by Mario Vargas Llosa include the author's most significant short novels. From his first work ever published, Los jefes, to the perverse and erotic Elogio de la madrastra, which was continued as Los cuadernos de Don Rigoberto. It also includes Los cachorros, ¿Quién mató a Palomino Molero? and El hablador.

Figura insoslayable del pensamiento político contemporáneo, en Antonio Gramsci confluyen el filósofo y el periodista, el historiador y el político, el crítico literario y cultural. Elegido diputado en abril de 1924 y secretario del Partido Comunista de Italia poco después, el genial sardo fue condenado por un Tribunal Especial fascista a veinte años de reclusión en junio de 1928. Tras años de malos tratos y confinamiento que acabarían por minar su frágil salud, falleció en Roma en 1937. Es justamente en su última década de vida, años de prisión y aislamiento –salvo por las...