Titoli in Arte e letteratura

Filósofo, místico y poeta indio, figura multifacética, Sri Aurobindo fue un tenaz activista y luchador por la independencia de la India, donde su mensaje caló muy hondo en toda la nación, al mismo nivel incluso, de Mahatma Gandhi. Su vida es un canto interminable a la resistencia.

Pintor, dibujante y activista político infatigable, José Clemente Orozco es sin duda el mayor de los tres grandes exponentes de la escuela muralista mexicana, aquella que con Siqueiros y Diego Rivera le diera tanta fama y gloria al país norteamericano. Él fue un metodista, un talento, un artista que llevaba a cabo sus pinturas a la manera antigua, con una mezcla de temple y óleo, de la misma manera que los pintores medievales.

Conocido como T. S. Eliot, es sin duda alguna uno de los mejores poetas en lengua inglesa del siglo XX. Desde su adolescencia destacó como un brillante alumno debido a su gran inteligencia y a la pasión temprana por el arte y las letras.

Fue un poeta beat estadounidense nacido en Paterson, New Jersey en 1926, cuya producción lírica estaba muy influida por el modernismo, el romanticismo, el beat y la cadencia del jazz, además por su práctica del budismo Kagyu y su origen judío. Autoconsiderado heredero de William Blake y Walt Whitman, su poesía marcó varias de las mejores páginas de la vida de los años sesenta en Norteamérica.

Su capacidad crítica, su estatura intelectual y su peculiaridad estilística. lo convirtieron en una de las voces más reconocibles del panorama cultural hispánico. De igual modo, su omnipresencia en múltiples foros (revistas, mesas redondas, programas de radio y televisión, periódicos, coloquios, museos, películas, antologías, prólogos, etc.) lo hizo una celebridad y uno de los personajes fundamentales de la ciudad de México.

En realidad esta debería ser la historia de uno de los más bellos poemas épicos de la historia de la independencia norteamericana, basada parcialmente en un hecho real: la cabalgata llevada a cabo la noche del 18 de abril de 1775 por el patriota Paul Revere...aquella su célebre frase: ¡Vienen los Ingleses!...nunca fue pronunciada a voz en cuello, aunque sí en el papel por el poeta romántico Henry W. Longfellow. Hijo de un inmigrante francés y criado en un modesto hogar americano de mediados del siglo XVIII....

Es uno de los más célebres pintores franceses, un abanderado de las nuevas técnicas, un héroe de la pintura que perteneció a la escuela impresionista, pero que luego se separó de ella rápidamente por su nuevo interés por la pintura de cuerpos femeninos sobre los paisajes. Su legado, que perdura hasta hoy, ha hecho de él el símbolo de toda una época en la pintura contemporánea.

Es con justicia considerado el máximo exponente de la escuela realista. Autor de una fecunda obra literaria, en sus escritos convirtió en sublime la mediocridad de la vida, en épica la vida de sus actores y en majestuosa las prosaicas exigencias de la vida cotidiana. Balzac hizo posible lo imposible: La descripción de toda una sociedad.

This book is going to change how you think about clothes and yourself. Part memoir and part guidebook, it features Morgan A. Wider’s personal evolution that led to where she is now - transforming the wardrobes, mentalities, and lives of women across the world.

A classic of modern travel writing, An Area of Darkness is Nobel Laureate V. S. Naipaul’s profound reckoning with his ancestral homeland and an extraordinarily perceptive chronicle of his first encounter with India. Traveling from the bureaucratic morass of Bombay to the ethereal beauty of Kashmir, from a sacred ice cave in the Himalayas to an abandoned temple near Madras, Naipaul encounters a dizzying cross-section of humanity: browbeaten government workers and imperious servants, a suavely self-serving holy man, and a deluded American religious seeker. 

Mort Crim has reported on major conflicts around the world for more than four decades and was a major inspiration for Will Ferrell’s performance in the movie Anchorman. Crim’s memoir takes listeners behind the camera to show what life was like when the local anchorman was as revered as the professional athlete and just as overpaid. It was a glamorous life, working alongside some of journalism’s legends: Walter Cronkite, David Brinkley, Dan Rather, and Ted Koppel. 

First published in 1906, The Mirror of the Sea was the first of Joseph Conrad’s two autobiographical memoirs. Discussing it, he called the book “a very intimate revelation...I have attempted here to lay bare with the unreserve of a last hour’s confession the terms of my relation with the sea, which beginning mysteriously, like any great passion the inscrutable Gods send to mortals, went on unreasoning and invincible, surviving the test of disillusion, defying the disenchantment that lurks in every day of a strenuous life"....

 This Is Not for You tells the story of activist and photographer Richard Brown, a Black Portlander who has spent decades working to bridge the divide between police and the Black community. His memoir brings listeners with him into the streets with fellow activists, into squad cars with the rank-and-file, and to regular meetings with mayors and police chiefs. There are very few people doing the kind of work Richard Brown has done. And that, as he sees it, is a big problem. 

Sakuntala Narasimhan, born in 1939 and living in Delhi during 1947 when India became independent is an Indian journalist, consumer rights activist, and classical vocalist trained in Carnatic and Hindustani classical music. As a columnist, Sakuntala won many awards, including the Chameli Devi Award for an Outstanding Woman Journalist. Environment and consumer issues were also her forte.

A mix of narrative, music, poems, reflections, and historic interviews narrated by me about all the influences that led to the ultimate recording of my 1978 album Mugs Game.  

In the 1970s, a mysterious man captivated and terrorized a small Alabama town. He was elegant and handsome, a charismatic pastor and leader in the African American community. But rumors swirled. "Preaching on Sunday," people would say, "killing on Monday." Far away in New York City, one of America’s most beloved writers was about to get caught up in the strange and violent tale of Reverend Willie J. Maxwell. Harper Lee, author of the modern-day classic To Kill a Mockingbird, was searching for her next book when the perfect story came her way.

William Faulkner was undoubtedly one of the greatest American writers. Now, you can take Thomas Merton as your personal guide in discovering the literary and spiritual genius of Faulkner’s works. 

Ten years ago, an FBI investigation was about to expose a scandal in the art world that would have been front-page news in New York and London. After a trail of fake paintings of astonishing quality led federal agents to art dealers, experts, and major auction houses, the investigation inexplicably ended, despite an abundance of evidence. The case was closed and the FBI file was marked “exempt from public disclosure”. Now that the statute of limitations on these crimes has expired and the case appears hermetically sealed shut by the FBI, this audiobook, Caveat Emptor, is that artist, Ken Perenyi’s, confession.

This book is part memoir, part philosophical text, part study in human behavior, from one of America's greatest literary treasures. Narrated masterfully by Bronson Pinchot, this audiobook also includes Twain’s popular short story, "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County".

Biographical profile of Walter Elias Disney, the man who built an empire on the back of a mouse. Imbued with an iron-like drive to succeed, Disney pushed, prodded, and pressed those around him, as he did himself, to succeed. He was always on the edge of vision and technology. An unmitigated risk taker, Disney constantly flirted with financial ruin, seemingly bent on a mission to remain in debt while his brother Roy's ambition was to harness Walt's financial excesses.