Word: salvadors
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Schor focused on the works of Flaubert, Zola and other 19th-century French writers. But her academic work was “eclectic” by her own description; Schor’s intellectual interests ranged from Salvador Dali to George Sand...
Political Fictions emerged from a collection of essays initially published when the New York Review of Books sent Didion to cover the 1988 presidential campaign. Starting there and moving on to the presidencies of George Bush, Sr. and Ronald Reagan, the massacres in El Mozote, El Salvador, the 1992 elections, the role of political journalists and George W. Bush’s “compassionate conservatism,” the book is a veritable indictment of a system that Didion sees as a narrative, a kind of “fiction”—and because...
...quiet midnight on a muggy weekend in San Salvador, the capital of El Salvador. Along the city's grimy main artery, Calle Ruben Dario, homeless people are camped out in a clutter of cardboard boxes. Suddenly a caravan of vehicles wheel up, and a handful of youths pile out. They begin ladling plates of steaming beans and rice from kettles in the rear of a pickup truck...
...Salvador Larroca from Marvel comics' "Heroes...
DIED. JORGE AMADO, 88, celebrated Brazilian writer whose 32 books were translated into some 50 languages; in Salvador, Brazil. His early novels, which often took swipes at Brazilian politicians, landed the author in prison and exile in the 1940s. Years later, his bawdier novels, Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon (1958) and Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands (1966), were turned into movies...