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...Line is distributing the filmed version of Gabriel García Márquez's novel Love in the Time of Cholera, and since Latin female stars have higher wattage than ever, it would seem felicitous timing. But you won't find one of them in this movie. And not just because of the budget. It used to be that playing a romantic lead was a rite of passage for any actor who wanted be on the A list. But in a world saturated with details of what sweatpants and cereals celebrities choose, it's hard for actors to get people...
...Gallegos prize, now available in an English translation by Natasha Wimmer—Bolaño, who died in 2003, became known as the most important and influential novelist in the Spanish-speaking world, a writer mentioned in the same breath as Borges and GarcÃa Márquez. Unlike the other demigods of the literary canon, though, Bolaño seems like a guy you could meet on the street, not a monument cast in bronze. This is the lifelong iconoclast who dropped out of school at 15, stole the books he read, attended poetry readings only...
Perret’s statement simply is not true. Mexico never formally declared war against the U.S., according to Jesús Velasco-Márquez, a specialist on the war. And it did not proclaim its intention to “repel†American aggression until July 1846, nearly two months after Polk signed the U.S. declaration...
...When receiving his well-deserved Nobel Prize, Colombian auteur Gabriel GarcÃa Márquez described the ironies and solitudes of the land where unbelievably, “El Dorado†used to appear in maps until just over a century ago. The surreal waters of Latin America reveal two very different paths forward and today’s horizon acquires the sadly familiar shape of uncertainty. One of those paths tries to materialize El Dorado, in the form of fossil fuels rather than gold and further vanquishing democratic institutions. The other is a harder path to follow...
Hardcover Fiction 1. "Shalimar the Clown" Salman Rushdie 2. "Trouble with Poetry" Billy Collins 3. "Memories of my Melancholy Whores" Gabriel GarcÃa Márquez 4. "On Beauty" Zadie Smith 5. "The Sea" John Banville 6. "Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits" Laila Lalami 7. "The Saint of Lost Things" Christopher Castellani 8. "Gilead" Marilynne Robinson 9. "New and Selected Poems" Volume 2 Mary Oliver 10. "Myth of You and Me" Leah Steward Hardcover Nonfiction 1. "Team of Rivals" Doris Kearns Goodwin 2. "Schooling America" Patricia Graham 3. "Moral Consequences of Economic Growth" Benjamin Friedman 4. "Year of Magical...