This month’s story is Francis Brett Harte’s “The Luck of Roaring Camp,” first published in 1868. Harte’s career has been tightly linked to Mark Twain’s, and it’s not hard to see why: they shared a time, place, and an interest in capturing the colloquial reality of provincial America, in particular the realities of the California
This month, we’re very pleased to welcome Mark Conway to our poetry session, where he will be sharing his new poem “In the Blizzard” (the text of the poem appears at the bottom of this message). Last month we contemplated matters of life and death with Nick Flynn’s “If This Is Your Final Destination.” Flynn’s
Straight Outta Compton es un a película dirigida por F. Gary Gary que cuenta la historia del grupo mítico de hip-hop N.W.A. La película, que se estrenó en 2015, utiliza como título el nombre del primer disco del grupo que salió en 1988. Enfocándose en los fundadores del grupo, Dr. Dre, Ice Cube, Easy-E, y
El Instituto Internacional ofrecerá dos visitas guiadas a su edificio dentro Madrid Otra Mirada (MOM), proyecto del Ayuntamiento de Madrid para dar a conocer el patrimonio cultural y artístico de la capital. Para participar en las visitas es necesario inscripción previa en https://www.iie.es/agenda/ La visita comprende un recorrido del edificio con la directora ejecutiva del Instituto Internacional.
This month’s story, Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “The Minister’s Black Veil,” was first published in 1832, then republished in 1837 in Twice-Told Tales, a collection of the author’s short stories. In his review of this collection, Edgar Allen Poe referred to Hawthorne, who was not widely celebrated at the time, as a writer of “extraordinary genius.” Given
This month’s poem, “If This is Your Final Destination” (2015), by Nick Flynn, mixes the mundane with the metaphysical, as the speaker meditates on the large, almost unanswerable questions of existence—what happens to us when we die?—and tries to string together a coherent narrative out of his past, present, and future. These different epochs of
Boys Don’t Cry es el primer largometraje de la directora Kimberly Peirce. Se estrenó en 1999 y está basada en la historia de Brandon Teena, un hombre transgénero que en el 1993 fue atacado y asesinado en Falls City, Nebraska. La película se enfoca en la relación entre Teena y su novia, Lana Tisdel, construyendo
Hello and welcome to the 2016-2017 English Reading Circle! This year our theme is “American Masters,” and as a glance at our reading list will affirm, the writers we will work with all qualify to be referred to as such. This month’s story, “The Fall of the House of Usher,” is a masterpiece of one
Selma, una película dirigida por Ava DuVernay que se estrenó en 2014, está basada en las marchas históricas por los derechos del voto que tuvieron lugar en Alabama en 1965. La película recoge una de las protestas más importantes del movimiento de los derechos civiles de mediados del último siglo en Estados Unidos, la cual
The English Reading Circle on Poetry has returned for 2016-2017, and we’ve got a great selection of poems for the upcoming year! We’re going to be reading poems by contemporary American poets associated with the Unamuno Author Series taking place here in Madrid. With a nice sense of continuity, our first poem of the year,