El gran aviso

I became a father at fifteen. At my young age, I wanted to play at being an adult, and the responsibilities were coming day by day in my new chapter as a father. During my boy's first birthday, I had the opportunity, over dinner at my house, to tell my mother that I would soon marry Elizabeth. She took my hand and said, "You two are too young to take such a huge step. Life is just beginning for both of you, and you still have a very long way to go and meet many more people." Regardless of her words that night, my decision to continue with the civil wedding remained solid, and a couple of...

Magistral crónica que retrata al poeta Pablo de Rokha, una de las figuras más intensas y combativas de la literatura chilena. Deslenguado, siempre polémico, atravesó buena parte del siglo ganando amigos y detractores, escribiendo una obra inmensa y fundamental, mientras la de sus compañeros de generación, entre ellos Mistral, Neruda y Huidobro, recorría el mundo de manera inédita hasta entonces. La de De Rokha es una historia llena de piezas extraviadas que Álvaro Bisama reconstruye de forma admirable. Cómo fue armándose su clan y familia, la fulminante historia de amor con...

A powerful memoir by two sisters about transitioning, family, and the path to self-realization. When Orange Is the New Black and Diary of a Future President star Selenis Leyva was young, her hardworking parents brought a new foster child into their warm, loving family in the Bronx. Selenis was immediately smitten; she doted on the baby, who in turn looked up to Selenis and followed her everywhere. The little boy became part of the family. But later, the siblings realized that the child was struggling with their identity. As Marizol transitioned and fought to define herself, Selenis and the...

Alejandro de Macedonia mostró desde un inicio la majestuosidad que sólo la influencia de los dioses otorga a los elegidos. Hijo de Filipo II y de la desmesurada Olimpia, Alexandro Magno exhibió desde pequeño un carácter impetuoso. Discípulo de Aristóteles y admirador de Aquiles, la amalgama de influencias que en él confluyeron hicieron que en 32 años de una breve pero poderosa existencia lograra vencer y dominar al ilimitado Imperio persa, fundara ciudades por toda Asia, y que tanto Oriente como Occidente fueran testigos de sus proezas inauditas. Sus conquistas no se ciñeron sólo a ...