La poesía es la máxima expresión del valor de la palabra como género literario y como biblioteca que trabaja con la palabra impresa nos gusta estar ligados a ella. Desde hace algunos años es parte importante de la programación cultural de la biblioteca y por extensión del Instituto. Además de los recitales poéticos que han
This month’s story is John Steinbeck’s “The Snake”, written in 1934 and published the year after. It forms part of The Long Valley collection, which was published in 1938. The story is set in Monterrey, California, and features a character, Dr. Phillips, that is based on the marine biologist and philosopher Ed Ricketts, a friend
La película “Dallas Buyers Club” trata la epidemia de VIH y SIDA en los Estados Unidos a través de la historia de Ron Woodroof. Está basada en la verdadera historia de lo que pasó en Dallas, Texas en el año 1985 cuando se le diagnostica VIH a Woodroof, interpretado por Matthew McConaughey, y le dicen
This month’s story is F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “Babylon Revisited,” published in 1931. The story is celebrated as one of Fitzgerald’s best, as well as one of his most autobiographical. Many of the events and characters of the story mirror elements of Fitzgerald’s life: the years of drunken indulgence in Paris, the lost wife (though Zelda
En una de las actuaciones más alabadas de su carrera artística, Daniel Day-Lewis encarna al presidente Abraham Lincoln en una de las luchas políticas más difíciles de su vida. A principios del año de 1865–y con la Guerra Civil estadounidense llegando a su fin–Lincoln utiliza todas las maquinaciones políticas a su alcance para lograr la
honey-cornbread-recipe Comments : This recipe is really fun and easy to make and it needs honey! We hope you have enjoyed the story for this month “The Beeman” by Laurie Krebs & Valeria Cis… and also your homemade honey cornbread. See you next session! — Family Book Club: American Family Food Stories The Family Book Club will
Join us from 19h-20h on March 23rd in room 304 for a free American Cultural Studies open session. Come to learn about upcoming course content for the Spring 2017 ACS 10 week courses, find out about our new American Music Legends 5 week mini-course, and meet ACS faculty. Reserve your seat online today American Expression
COMING IN MAY! Designed for adult students with at least an Upper Intermediate level of English, in this 6 hour, 2 day workshop students will rehearse and perform a modern adaptation of the classic fairy tale Little Red Riding Hood with an ensemble of actors and a professional stage director. The workshop will be a
This month’s story is William Faulkner’s “That Evening Sun,” first published in 1931, two years after The Sound and the Fury and five years before Absalom, Absalom! These two novels share a common denominator with “Evening Sun”: all three relate incidents in the lives of the Compson family, and are narratively guided by Quentin Compson,
Milk (Mi nombre es Harvey Milk en español) es una película dirigida por Gus Van Sant y escrita por Dustin Lance Black que cuenta la vida del político Harvey Milk, un defensor y activista de los derechos civiles de los homosexuales. Milk fue la primera persona abiertamente homosexual en ser elegida para un cargo político