Don Quijote

Here is a collection of interviews that cover the period from 1967 through 1993. Many are translations of interviews that originally appeared in French, German, Italian, Polish, Spanish, or Swedish periodicals. Several are published here for the first time in any language. Giving attention to Sontag's education and the development of her aesthetic and moral temperament, they cover Sontag's rich career as a distinguished writer, filmmaker, dramatist, and cultural critic. Born in New York City, reared in Arizona and California, educated at Berkeley, Chicago, Harvard, Oxford, the Sorbonne,...

Just as philosophy begins with doubt, life worthy of being called human begins with irony. This quote by Kierkegaard leads an essay that traces a journey through irony and its uses from Socrates to Foster Wallace, up to its use in our societies marked by "mass public conversation."

Antología de POESÍA BEAT (Edición Bilingüe) editada por Juan Arabia para Buenos Aires Poetry que incluye 40 autores de la Generación Beat, como Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Herbert Huncke, Carl Solomon, Anne Waldman, William Burroughs, Philip Lamantia, Carl Solomon, John Wieners, Michael McClure, Gary Snyder, Lew Welch & Diane di Prima, entre otros.

¿Qué significa leer? ¿Dónde y cuándo nace la pasión por los libros? ¿Hasta qué punto la lectura nos transforma como individuos? Pocos intelectuales en México han meditado tanto y de manera tan profunda sobre el tema de la lectura como Juan Domingo Argüelles. Prueba de ello es la gran cantidad de libros que ha consagrado al tema. En la presente obra, Juan Domingo entrevista a varias figuras de la cultura nacional (escritores, científicos, editores, investigadores, etc.) con el fin de indagar, de manera más personal, sobre las motivaciones que llevaron a cada uno de los interrogados ...