Pepe Ravelo

Shares the chilling testimony of Mukhtar Mai, a 28-year old Pakistani woman, who, in 2002, was sentenced by Meerwala's tribal counsel to endure a collective rape in redress for an action committed by her 13-year-old brother, and who, after suffering nameless atrocities, decided to forego the tradition of committing suicide to denounce the crime.

The author discusses his own homosexuality, his emotional and intellectual odyssey toward becoming a writer, his relationships with Reynaldo Arenas and Manuel Puig, and how they, as well as Federico García Lorca, faced homophobia, in a personal look at what it means to grow up in Latin America as a homosexual. (Social Science)

John D. Rockefeller, Sr.--history's first billionaire and the patriarch of America's most famous dynasty--is an icon whose true nature has eluded three generations of historians. Now Ron Chernow, the National Book Award-winning biographer of the Morgan and Warburg banking families, gives us a history of the mogul "etched with uncommon objectivity and literary grace . . . as detailed, balanced, and psychologically insightful a portrait of the tycoon as we may ever have" (Kirkus Reviews). Titan is the first full-length biography based on unrestricted access to Rockefeller's exceptionally rich...

Adoraba las carreras de caballos. Detestaba el cigarrillo y el alcohol. Los dulces eran su perdición. Odiaba los aviones. Le encantaba jugar a las cartas y a los dados con sus jugadores. Apostaba hasta por los números de patente de los autos que se cruzaban en la ruta. Su lista de cábalas era interminable. Sentía a los futbolistas como hijos. Enfrentaba a los periodistas, con los que discutía a los gritos por los pasillos, pero no era rencoroso y terminaba aflojando. Entraba a la Bombonera tapándose la nariz y se aguantaba lo que viniera. Se desvivía por la familia: tuvo una compañera ...