La mayoría de las compañías de teatro profesionales de todo el país han cancelado sus temporadas de actuaciones al menos hasta finales de este año, por lo que parece que pasarán un mínimo de seis…
Cuarenta años después de su muerte, el director de cine Alfred Hitchcock sigue siendo conocido como "el maestro del suspense", y sus películas conservan su popularidad y elogios de la crítica. Varias…
Muchas de las grandes óperas del mundo han sido adaptadas o inspiradas en obras clásicas y populares de ficción, poesía y teatro. En algunos casos, el libretista de una ópera sigue fielmente la trama…
Todos los que fuimos a la escuela en Estados Unidos hemos leído al menos algunas novelas estadounidenses publicadas antes de 1900. Los sospechosos más probables son La letra escarlata, Moby Dick…
Al igual que el año en curso, 1920 fue un año agitado para Estados Unidos. La epidemia de gripe española de los dos años anteriores, de la que hemos oído hablar mucho últimamente, se llevó la vida de…
At a secluded mountain lake, a young couple rent a canoe. A few hours later, the overturned canoe is discovered, and the body of a woman is found in the lake, drowned and showing evidence of head injuries. Her companion is soon arrested and charged with first-degree murder. If this...
Author and teacher Christopher Swann once heard from his parents about an unnerving incident that occurred late in the evening at their home. A young woman came to the door, on the run from a bad situation she’d found herself in, and begged them to let her in. Fortunately for...
In the course of the past thirty years, Scandinavian crime fiction has become an increasingly popular genre among English-speaking readers and television viewers, to the extent that a guidebook called Nordic Noir was published in 2013.Wendy Lesser, editor of the journal Threepenny Review, author of numerous books about literature and...
It was a crisp autumn day in 1929 when Veda Elston took three-year-old Betty to the beach to play with her new pail and shovel in the seaside Lincolnshire village of Chapel St. Leonards on England’s east coast, just a short walk from their home. After turning her attention from...
We hear a lot these days about “the 1%” -- those Americans who are wealthier than 99% of the nation’s population. Janny Scott, a New York Times reporter, who has also written a biography of Barack Obama’s mother, knows about this group from the inside, because she grew up in...
