“Little star” by Andi Watson “Simon Adams is certain of what he's not: he's not one of those dead-beat Dads. He's a thoroughly modern “involved” father. He'd give up anything for his daughter from him and to prove it, he's already sacrificed his career from him, his pride from him and various portions of his sanity from him”. Extracted from the back cover of the
“Anna Karenina” by Leo Tolstoy “Anna Karenina is a novel by the Russian writer Leo Tolstoy, published in serial installments from 1873 to 1877 in the periodical The Russian Messenger. Tolstoy clashed with his editor Mikhail Katkov over issues that arose in the final installment; therefore, the novel's first complete appearance was in book form.”
“Delirium Matters: (1989-1996)” by Luis Antonio de Villena “Who are the multiple characters of Delirium Matters? Every lyrical poem lives in the intimacy of the poet, but the poet (without ceasing to be him, multiplying himself, disguising himself, passing himself off as someone who is not entirely, like an actor imbued in his roles) can use voracious masks.
“Laughing Thing” by William Saroyan “Evan Nazarenus, an Armenian-born college professor, takes his family to spend some time at his brother's country home in Clovis, California. After a long absence for work, he wants to resume his relationship with Swan, his wife, and get closer to his little children, Red and Eva,
“The children of men” by PD James “In this astonishing novel, an entirely new departure in her writing, PD James imagines a future England where human infertility has spread like a plague. By the year 2021 no babies have been born for a quarter of a century, not since Year Omega, anywhere in the inhabited
“Rest of walkers: intimate diaries” by Adolfo Bioy Casares “Any image of Adolfo Bioy Casares would be incomplete if, in addition to the forger of perfect plots and the ironic narrator of love misunderstandings, it did not include the attentive and implacable witness who, in silence and during Over fifty years, he carefully recorded his life and opinions in
“Bonnie and Clyde” directed by Arthur Penn [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BizxiDtFdrI] “Bonnie and Clyde is a 1967 American gangster film directed by Arthur Penn, starring Warren Beatty, Faye Dunaway, Gene Hackman, Gene Wilder, and Michael J. Pollard in the title roles. The film tells the story of two robbers, Bonnie Parker and
“Question of self-love” by Carme Riera “After a long year of silence, Angela, an elderly novelist, writes to her friend Ingrid to explain what happened. It is simply a love story, a sad adventure in which Angela has staked everything on a man whose mask she mistook.
“Judaism” by Julio Trebolle Barrera “The Jewish “difference” is constituted by the tension between its two sources of identity, ethnic and religious; between the diaspora and the Jerusalemite metropolis; between a universalist conception and the conscience of the Jewish people; between law and mysticism, or between the memory of history
“A good school” by Richard Yates “William Grove is a nervous teenager trying to fit in at his new boarding School. (…) Their stories twine together in the claustrophobic confines of the small community of Dorset Academy.” Extracted from the back cover of the issue. See also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Good_School http://bostonreview.net/BR24.5/onan.html http://www.richardyates.org/gallery_ags.html The selected titles are a sample of