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This brief treatise on political doctrine, written by Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli (Machiavelli) in 1513, is the obligatory reference for every ruler faced with the demanding challenges of the res publica. This doctrinal for rulers, full of common sense and pragmatism, tries to...

Just after finishing her book The Call, one of the best non-fiction books of recent times, Leila Guerriero headed to the Costa Brava in the footsteps of Truman Capote, who wrote much of his famous In Cold Blood there. The result is this work...

The story of Gary Gilmore, a man in the State Penitentiary of Utah who chose death over endless appeals and an anguished wait on death row. The incredible story, based on hundreds of interviews, focuses on the nine months from the day Gilmore is...

With the virtuosic synthesis of memoir, criticism, and journalism for which she has become known, Leslie Jamison offers us 14 new essays that are by turns ecstatic, searching, staggering, and wise. In its kaleidoscopic sweep, Make It Scream, Make It Burn creates a profound...

Combining the sociological and philosophical essay with extensive erudition and a very juicy anecdote, as well as with multiple personal experiences, the author proposes a vast tour through the universe of interpretation. The evolution of performing spaces throughout history, the relationship between the performer...

It has been half a century since Wendell Berry decided to resign from his position as a professor at New York University to return to his native Kentucky. His academic colleagues looked at him in horror when he told them of his decision, and...

Healing is a philosophy, an art, a therapy, a knowledge, a practice, a biological reality, a relationship to life and a potential for solution. Its concept is in itself as portentous as the infinite universe that cannot be embraced from the mind, but from...

Many introductory books have been written about the Kabbalah in recent years. Some of them aim at superficially deciphering the main concepts of a practically impenetrable subject; others seek to describe the way in which the mystical teachings were transmitted through the most famous...

Can the existence of the United States be understood without talking about genocide? How much indigenous blood did it take to baptize the land of the free and the home of the brave? How did its governments manage to legitimize the colonization of the...

Karina Malpica takes us on a personal and scientific journey into the world of cannabis as a fundamental nutritional element. From her own experience as a user and as a teacher in the first Diploma of Cannabis Medicine in Mexico, Karina explores the impact...

Exiled from the art world and on sabbatical from her dead-end bar job, Irina obsessively takes explicit photographs of the average-looking men she persuades to model for her, scouted from the streets of Newcastle. But her talent has not gone unnoticed, and Irina is...

It begins as your typical boy meets boy. While out with friends at their local university drag night, Tom buys Ming a drink. Confident and witty, a magnetic young playwright, Ming is the perfect antidote to Tom’s awkward energy, and their connection is instant....

If you could talk one last time to someone you've lost forever, what would you say? In front of Kotoko, steam rises from the bowls full of rice and miso soup on the table. He took the train from Tokyo to reach Chibineko Kitchen,...

Sensitive Anatomy is a celebration of the body in all its breadth. A defense of imperfection and its alternative beauties, through a poetic, political and erotic journey through the matter that we are. A book that humorously reveals how we see ourselves or how...

This volume includes two short novels, the first of which, The South, gave rise to the script for the film of the same name directed by Víctor Erice. Both this story and the one told in Bene are characterized by their narrative magnetism, based...

Following the death of a friend, the poet and pets' mortician Dennis Barlow finds himself entering the artificial Hollywood paradise of the Whispering Glades Memorial Park. Within its golden gates, death, American-style, is wrapped up and sold like a package holiday--and Dennis gets drawn...

Eccentric, adventurous Christina Goering meets the anxious but equally enterprising Mrs. Copperfield at a party. Two serious ladies who want to live outside of themselves, they go in search of Mrs. Copperfield who visits Panama with her husband, where she finds solace among the...

It is generally agreed that the story is the narrative form par excellence within contemporary North American literature and that Raymond Carver is the indisputable master of this register. In each story of Cathedral the latent presence or intrusion of “extraordinary terrors within an...

This is set in the fascinating city of Oporto, although we suspect that it could be about any other city in Europe. We also suspect that the problems of police abuse, torture and social prejudices form the seed of this story, and the expressive...

The shocking thing of the girls was how nearly normal they seemed when their mother let them out for the one and only date of their lives. Twenty years on, their enigmatic personalities are embalmed in the memories of the boys who worshipped them...