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This travelogue provides a basic reader for students on the upper high-school level and for secondary-level college students. The author's expert knowledge of the language and the country has enabled him to give free rein to his love affair with Guatemala. The result is a well-planned exercise in language, complete with extensive notes, exercises, and vocabu­lary, but enlivened with real-life learning experience. Interwoven with the sights of present-day Guatemala are glimpses into the past of Mayan civilization. Mr. Davis has drawn from his own knowledge of the country in the careful...

En las tertulias participaban a menudo también periodistas, intelectuales, artistas extranjeros de paso, críticos de arte, fotógrafos, lo que les confería mayor notoriedad y a los contertulios un contacto con la sociedad a través de los correspondientes artículos, entrevistas e imágenes en los periódicos. Posiblemente, por sus características y composición, estos encuentros semanales de artistas resultaban más concurridos en comparación con los de otras agrupaciones, verbigracia el Grupo Parpalló o el Centro de Estudios Norteamaricanos. En concreto, los “Libros de Oro” de...

Young Billy McLaughlin heads out to Tahoe, fresh out of college and ready to live out his vision of the good life. This involves skiing everyday, partying hard, playing some guitar, getting laid, and otherwise not worrying about a damn thing. Much to his surprise, the easy life doesn’t come so easy. That’s because the world of “the gods” is working down on him. The sex-hungry Clarissa, Goddess of the Hunt, is making his life a living hell while Jim, God of Good Beers and Friendship, is trying to pull him through. The story takes the reader for a ride through the ski-bum life in Tahoe...

Francisco Calcagno was one of the most prolific authors of Cuban XIX century, and yet one of the less studied by critics and scholars. His novels focused on blacks are nonetheless essential to understand how the creole elites view blacks and the fears they felt about the influence of blacks in a Cuba white and Spaniard. What could it then better than to read Aponte, along with Prof. Moran's insightful introductory study. There we find an excellent balance between history and fiction, archive material and criticism. In Prof. Francisco Moran's skillful hands Calcagno's novel becomes a literary...