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  • Why Sinéad O'Connor Matters
    McCabe, Allyson
    A stirring defense of Sinéad O’Connor’s music and activism, and an indictment of the culture that cancelled her.In 1990, Sinéad O’Connor’s video for “Nothing Compares 2 U” turned her into a superstar. Two years later, an appearance on Saturday Night Live turned her into a scandal. For many people—including, for years, the author—what they knew of O’Connor stopped there. Allyson...

    $431.00 MXN

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  • One Hundred Love Sonnets
    Neruda, Pablo
    "The happiness I feel in offering these to you is vast as a savanna," Pablo Neruda wrote his adored wife, Matilde Urrutia de Neruda, in his dedication of One Hundred Love Sonnets. Set against the backdrop of his beloved Isla Negra, these joyfully sensual poems draw on the wind and tides, the white sand with its scattering of delicate wildflowers, and the hot sun and salty scent...

    $310.00 MXN

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  • Oaxaca al Gusto
    Kennedy, Diana
    No one has done more to introduce the world to the authentic, flavorful cuisines of Mexico than Diana Kennedy. Acclaimed as the Julia Child of Mexican cooking, Kennedy has been an intrepid, indefatigable student of Mexican foodways for more than fifty years and has published several classic books on the subject, including The Cuisines of Mexico (now available in The Essential C...

    $1,120.00 MXN

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  • Plain in Flames, The
    Rulfo, Juan
    Juan Rulfo is one of the most important writers of twentieth-century Mexico, though he wrote only two books—the novel Pedro Páramo (1955) and the short story collection El llano en llamas (1953). First translated into English in 1967 as The Burning Plain, these starkly realistic stories create a psychologically acute portrait of poverty and dignity in the countryside at a time ...

    $384.00 MXN

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  • Dreamtigers
    Borges, Jorge Luis
    Dreamtigers has been heralded as one of the literary masterpieces of the twentieth century by Mortimer J. Adler, editor of Great Books of the Western World. It has been acknowledged by its author as his most personal work. Composed of poems, parables, and stories, sketches and apocryphal quotations, Dreamtigers at first glance appears to be a sampler—albeit a dazzling one—of th...

    $340.00 MXN

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  • Complete Works and Other Stories
    Monterroso, Augusto
    Augusto Monterroso is widely known for short stories characterized by brilliant satire and wit. Yet behind scathing allusions to the weaknesses and defects of the artistic and intellectual worlds, they show his generous and expansive sense of compassion.This book brings together for the first time in English the volumes Complete Works (and Other Stories) (Obras completas [y otr...

    $366.00 MXN

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  • A Rosario Castellanos Reader
    Castellanos, Rosario
    Thinker, writer, diplomat, feminist Rosario Castellanos was emerging as one of Mexico's major literary figures before her untimely death in 1974. This sampler of her work brings together her major poems, short fiction, essays, and a three-act play, The Eternal Feminine. Translated with fidelity to language and cultural nuance, many of these works appear here in English for the ...

    $1,102.00 MXN

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  • Avedon at Work: In the American West
    Wilson, Laura

    $1,193.00 MXN

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  • As Above, So Below
    Adele, Lynne

    $1,247.00 MXN

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  • Cartucho and My Mother's Hands
    Campobello, Nellie
    Nellie Campobello, a prominent Mexican writer and "novelist of the Revolution," played an important role in Mexico's cultural renaissance in the 1920s and early 1930s, along with such writers as Rafael Muñoz and Gregorio López y Fuentes and artists Diego Rivera, Orozco, and others. Her two novellas, Cartucho (first published in 1931) and My Mother's Hands (first published as La...

    $664.00 MXN

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  • William S. Burroughs and the Cult of Rock...
    Rae, Casey
    William S. Burroughs's fiction and essays are legendary, but his influence on music's counterculture has been less well documented—until now. Examining how one of America's most controversial literary figures altered the destinies of many notable and varied musicians, William S. Burroughs and the Cult of Rock 'n' Roll reveals the transformations in music history that can be tra...

    $394.00 MXN

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