Books
La Perla de China
Por Jirad Saragg Anchee Min nació el 14 de enero de 1957 en Shanghái. Es una escritora, fotógrafa, pintora y música China-Estadounidense. Vivió en China hasta 1984. Actualmente vive en USA y China. Min creció [...]
Film and Book Review: Les Miserables
by Walker Rowe I cannot watch Les Miserables Again. I just can’t do it. I have seen the movie and read the novel too many times. I know every scene and anguish over what the movie [...]
Formas de Volver a Casa
Por Jirad Saragg “Formas de Volver a Casa” (2011) es la sexta obra del poeta, crítico, narrador y ensayista, Alejandro Zambra, nacido en Santiago de Chile el año 1975, además de ésta, su tercera novela, [...]
Recommended read: The Shadow of What we Were
review by Walker Rowe Living here in Chile, so long after the military coup, one grows weary of hearing about Pinochet and the expatriate experience of those who were forced to exile from the nation [...]
Gillian Flynn’s “Gone Girl”
reviewed by Walker Rowe In Gillian Flynn’s action packed thriller “Gone Girl”, Nick Dunne is an unemployed writer who comes home one day to find that his wife Amy Elliott Dunne has disappeared. This draws the attention of the [...]
January First
reviewed by Walker Rowe Reading Michael Schofield’s “January First” is enough to make you bang your head against the wall. The condition of his schizophrenic daughter of course is enough to make the father [...]
Linda Hogan’s Indios: Modernizing the Myth
Review by Chip Livingston There are things readers have come to expect from a new Linda Hogan book, a garden of language tended to nourish coming generations; a story integrated with elements fertile as sacred soil [...]
Bettina Knapp’s Emily Dickinson Life and Literature
by Julia Hones Bettina Knapp’s “Emily Dickinson Life and Literature“, as the title suggests, explores details of Dickinson’s relationships and inner conflicts. Emily was born in 1830, in Amherst, Massachusets, in a small farming community, and [...]
Patricia Highsmith’s “Strangers On a Train”
by Julia Hones The saying that says that “nobody is a prophet in his own land” applies well to Patricia Highsmith whose literary work was unappreciated in the United States for the entire length of her [...]
Leonard Mlodinow speaks on “The Grand Design” in Las Condes
Leonard Mlodinow came to the Las Condes Municipal theater this week to talk about the second book he co-wrote with Stephan Hawking, the “Grand Design”. The event was an invitation-only affair sponsored by the investment firm Celfin Capital. [...]
The Gringo and the Harvest
