Cómo ser adorable, según Audrey Hepburn

La caída del Muro de Berlín en 1989 dejó a Cuba a la deriva con millones de naufragios personales: sus habitantes, marineros de la utopía socialista. La crisis económica —eufemísticamente nombrada por el gobierno Período Especial— transformó radicalmente la vida en una isla que, al decir de Zoé Valdés, “pretendía construir el paraíso”. ¿Y qué hacer cuando fracasa el proyecto de tu vida? O peor: ¿qué hacer cuando fracasa el proyecto de nación? Aferrarse a la barba de Fidel Castro, unos; lanzarse al mar en balsas, entre tiburones, otros; resistir las inclemencias del...

I was born into the family of William Julius and Emilie (Baudat) Gayle on August 30, 1919 They decided to name me Luella Celestine for my two grandmothers...Luella Love (Sanders) Gayle and Celestine (Pichon) Baudat. I did not like the name and was very happy that they decided to call me “Celeste.” At the time of my birth, my brother Milton was almost two, having been born September 2, 1917. Unfortunately, he died with Diphtheria on December 11, 1921, when I was only two. Mom and Dad had previously lost a son, Dalton, who died April 13, 1915 at the age of 16 months. He was born December 8, ...

El legendario editor italiano Giulio EINAUDI recorre la historia de su editorial guiando al lector por el corazón de una extraordinaria aventura intelectual y dibujando un retrato inesperado, muchas veces conmovedor, de sus fundadores y participantes: Leone Ginzburg, Cesare Pavese, Italo Calvino... Junto a ellos, un grupo de apasionados cómplices en el trabajo editorial colectivo como Norberto Bobbio, Elio Vittorini y Luciano Foà. Desmontando y discutiendo pieza a pieza cada parte de este inigualable laboratorio de ideas que fue su sello editorial, EINAUDI nos brinda una lección de...

Many of Ronald Reagan's ways were not only unusual, but seem to contradict his others. Some authors are so perplexed by his nature they are reluctant to even assign intelligence to his mentality. They suspect he operated on everything from instinct to hunches to gut feelings and guesses. Lawrence Nesbitt's six years of extensive research has revealed a single psychological key that makes sense of the anomalies and contradictions. He has uncovered a powerful and nearly unique mindset that directed almost all of Reagan's conduct then and causes the confusion now. This unusual belief also...