Argues that Shakespeare is anti-political, dissecting the nature of the nation-state and charting a surprising form of resistance to it, using sovereign power against itself to engineer new forms of selfhood and relationality that escape the orbit of the nation-state. It is these new experiences tha[...]
"One of the most extraordinary works of fantasy, for adults or children, published so far this century."--Time magazine, on the Fairyland series
Twelve-year-old September lives in Omaha, and used to have an ordinary life, until her father went to war and her mother went to work. One day, Septemb[...]
"One of the most extraordinary works of fantasy, for adults or children, published so far this century." --"Time" magazine on the Fairyland series
September misses Fairyland and her friends Ell, the Wyverary, and the boy Saturday. She longs to leave the routines of home and embark on a new adven[...]
La presente reedicion de Tras los pasos de Juan Goytisolo por los Campos de Nijar quiere conmemorar los sesenta (60) anos de primera visita en 1956 de Juan Goytisolo a Almeria, Premio Cervantes de las Letras. Aquella visita dio origen a la novela social Campos de Nijar, una obra clave en la litera[...]
Lost and confused in the face of the fallout from his actions in "Forever Evil: Blight," John Constantine has sold himself out to the Cold Flame and is vulnerable to attack by Spellbinder! How will DCU's con man deal with the reprecussions of this universe changing event? Written by Eisner Award nom[...]
Recounts the occupation of Egypt by Napoleon and his army, describing how misunderstandings and miscalculations on both sides led to the failure of the ill-fated French attempt to bring liberty and the rule of law to the country.[...]
London, 1903. Joseph Conrad is struggling with his new novel ('I am placing it in South America in a Republic I call Costaguana'). Progress is slow and the great writer needs help from a native of the Caribbean coast of South America. Jos Altamirano, Colombian at birth, who has just arrived in Lond[...]
No sooner does he get to know Ricardo Laverde than disaffected young Colombian lawyer Antonio Yammara realises that his new friend has a secret, or rather several secrets. Antonio's fascination with the life of ex-pilot Ricardo Laverde begins by casual acquaintance in a seedy Bogota billiard hall an[...]
As seen from the perspective of 1492, the medieval expansion of Latin Europe was nowhere as dramatic or enduring as in the Iberian Peninsula and the Atlantic. Its Christian kingdoms continued their advance against Al-Andalus up to 1492, whereas territorial expansion elsewhere against the Muslim worl[...]