News, Reviews, and InterviewsThe National Book Awards winners were announced Wednesday night. The winners were Adam Johnson in fiction, Ta-Nehisi Coates in nonfiction, Robin Coste Lewis in poetry, and…
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September 15, 2014for Adolfo Bioy CasaresBy Alicia D'Amico [Public domain or Public domain],via Wikimedia CommonsToday, September 15, would have been Adolfo Bioy Casares’s 100th birthday. A protég…
April 24, 2014Photo: Spanish Ministry of CultureThe 2013 recipient of the Miguel de Cervantes Prize, Elena Poniatowska Amor, delivered her acceptance speech yesterday (April 23, 2014) on the anniv…
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