La primatóloga y antropóloga inglesa Jane Goodall falleció a la edad de 91 años el 1 de octubre de 2025. Después de haber realizado investigaciones y trabajo de campo durante más de seis décadas sobre…
La primatóloga y antropóloga inglesa Jane Goodall falleció a la edad de 91 años el 1 de octubre de 2025. Después de haber realizado investigaciones y trabajo de campo durante más de seis décadas sobre…
Conocí a Lan Samantha Chang en 2019, durante unas breves vacaciones en Iowa City, Iowa, sede de la Universidad de Iowa, conocida por su equipo de fútbol americano, los Hawkeyes, su programa de…
Conocí a Lan Samantha Chang en 2019, durante unas breves vacaciones en Iowa City, Iowa, sede de la Universidad de Iowa, conocida por su equipo de fútbol americano, los Hawkeyes, su programa de…
Hace muchos años, fui recepcionista en la Biblioteca Sucursal de Cahuenga, y aún no me decidía a ser bibliotecaria. Por aquel entonces, mi parada favorita antes de terminar mi turno era la zona 979.41…
Hace muchos años, fui recepcionista en la Biblioteca Sucursal de Cahuenga, y aún no me decidía a ser bibliotecaria. Por aquel entonces, mi parada favorita antes de terminar mi turno era la zona 979.41…
Somewhere towards the end of Lan Samantha Chang’s third novel, The Family Chao, I kept thinking about the first story in Maxine Hong Kingston’s seminal work The Woman Warrior, where a woman takes her own life by jumping into the family well, just hours after giving birth in a pigsty. ...
Somewhere towards the end of Lan Samantha Chang’s third novel, The Family Chao, I kept thinking about the first story in Maxine Hong Kingston’s seminal work The Woman Warrior, where a woman takes her own life by jumping into the family well, just hours after giving birth in a pigsty. ...
These days when we think about the 1970s, we’re assaulted with memories of the energy crisis, the Vietnam War, Richard Nixon’s resignation as President of the United States after the Watergate scandal, and, of course, disco. Many of us equate disco with the 1970s, a genre of dance music that...
These days when we think about the 1970s, we’re assaulted with memories of the energy crisis, the Vietnam War, Richard Nixon’s resignation as President of the United States after the Watergate scandal, and, of course, disco. Many of us equate disco with the 1970s, a genre of dance music that...
In her introduction to Wide Awake, editor Suzanne Lummis informs us how she and her publisher came up with the title for this poetry anthology. They wanted a title that “stands against the notion that the metropolis is densely packed with dreamers who came to participate in The Dream Factory...
In her introduction to Wide Awake, editor Suzanne Lummis informs us how she and her publisher came up with the title for this poetry anthology. They wanted a title that “stands against the notion that the metropolis is densely packed with dreamers who came to participate in The Dream Factory...
In Married Love and Other Stories, Tessa Hadley digs deep into the unconscious of family life. Her dense prose offers a tour into the emotional contours of sibling relationships, parenthood, and the kind of intergenerational melodrama to be found in weighty novels. She has a keen sense about the psychology...
In Married Love and Other Stories, Tessa Hadley digs deep into the unconscious of family life. Her dense prose offers a tour into the emotional contours of sibling relationships, parenthood, and the kind of intergenerational melodrama to be found in weighty novels. She has a keen sense about the psychology...
There is a scene in Unnatural Habitats & Other Stories where a bobcat lounges on a bed between a man and a woman. It’s the couple’s first night together. The man loves animals and keeps them in his house, including birds and snakes, but the bobcat is special. Soon, awkwardness...
There is a scene in Unnatural Habitats & Other Stories where a bobcat lounges on a bed between a man and a woman. It’s the couple’s first night together. The man loves animals and keeps them in his house, including birds and snakes, but the bobcat is special. Soon, awkwardness...
