Títulos en Ensayos

Los monstruos existen y se pasean entre nosotros, quizá seamos nosotros mismos. Este es el punto de partida de la nueva obra de Sergio del Molino, un viaje que esta vez nos enseña a mirar hacia el territorio más común y a la vez el más individual: la piel humana. Una grave psoriasis, que llena el cuerpo de costras y hace imposible mostrar la desnudez, le sirve al narrador para analizar la vida de diversos personajes conocidos que han sufrido las consecuencias de la mala piel.

Al acercarnos a algunas de sus lecturas preferidas, Rosa Montero nos sumerge en un mundo literario propio, íntimo y universal al mismo tiempo, formado por grandes historias, héroes valientes, monstruos memorables, jóvenes misteriosos o malvados geniales.

"格差を伴う多様化"が進む現在の日本で、恋愛はどう変化しているのか？いい男・女とはどんな人間なのか？不幸な恋愛を回避するためには知らなければならない事実がある。恋愛エッセイ。

En Ramón López Velarde. La lumbre inmóvil —selección y epílogo de Marco Antonio Campos−, José Emilio Pacheco realiza una lectura de la obra del autor de «La suave Patria», una disección única de su quehacer poético. Con apenas treinta y tres años, Ramón López Velarde...

Escritos entre 1944 e 1962, situados entre o ensaio e a autobiografia, os onze relatos de As pequenas virtudes são um marco da escrita memorialística do século XX.Sem idealizações nem sentimentalismos, As pequenas virtudes é fruto de uma prosa límpida, aliada ao vigor típico dos...

En ese texto Francis Scott Fitzgerald que siempre tuvo problemas económicos, a pesar de llegar a ser un escritor de éxito, nos explica cómo intentaba ahorrar y cómo nunca lo conseguía.Su prosa hace un retrato irónico, pero a la vez muy representativo de la clase media norteamericana. Los Fitzgerald se mudan a las afueras de Nueva York y deciden comprar un libro de contabilidad en el que Zelda, la esposa de Fitzgerald, iba a registrar minuciosamente cada recibo que pagaban en un intento desesperado de ahorrar.

The crônica, a literary genre peculiar to Brazilian newspapers, allows writers, or even soccer stars, to address a wide readership on any theme they like. Chatty, mystical, intimate, flirtatious, and revelatory, Clarice Lispector’s pieces for the Saturday edition of Rio’s leading paper, the Jornal do Brasil, from 1967 to 1973, take the forms of memories, essays, aphorisms, and serialized stories. Endlessly delightful, her insights make one sit up and think, whether about children or social ills or pets or society women or the business of writing or love.

A dazzling journey into the eccentric, troubled, and luminous minds that shaped literature. In this bold and deeply researched blend of memoir, essay, literary analysis, and intellectual sleuth story, Montero draws on psychology, neuroscience, and literature, as well as the lives of writers and artists, to explore the connection between creativity and mental vulnerability.

What makes life meaningful? How do we confront our inevitable end? An eminent psychiatrist draws on decades of clinical experience to show how he and his patients have grappled with the most profound existential questions. “A remedy more powerful than any fad or pill could promise.”...

From the Emmy, Critics Choice and Golden Globe winning co-creator and star of Netflix’s acclaimed Adolescence comes an era-defining book on fathers, sons, and the meaning of manhood. What do you wish you could tell your son before he faced his first real failure? Before his heart got broken?...

A poignant, moving essay collection on the longing and hope of living in diaspora and what it means to be Palestinian today, from the Lambda Literary Award-winning author of You Exist Too Much. Fewer and fewer Palestinians living in the diaspora today have direct experiences of their homeland...

A collection of the year’s best food and travel writing, selected by renowned chef and humanitarian José Andrés. “Good food and travel writing takes us somewhere far, far away without leaving our living rooms,” writes José Andrés. “Open a magazine or a newspaper, and boom: you are...

A collection of twenty pieces that represent the best science and nature writing published the previous year and explores our ever-changing world. On his selections for this year’s The Best American Science and Nature Writing, Randall Munroe writes, “Rather than simply telling people facts...

Featuring multiple narrators, each essay is brought uniquely and vivdly to life. “The essayist needs the objective world,” writes M. Gessen, the guest editor of The Best American Essays 2026, asking, “But does the objective world need the essayist?” There is no straightforward answer to...

A revelatory exploration of the relationship between music and running by one of our foremost music writers Out the front door, across the street, down the hill, and into Van Cortlandt Park in the Bronx. This is how Ben Ratliffs runs started most days of the week for about a decadesometimes...

Brought to you by Penguin. A much-loved classic of nature writing from environmentalist and the author of Waterlog, Roger Deakin, Wildwood is an exploration of the element wood in nature, our culture and our lives. From the walnut tree at his Suffolk home, he embarks upon a quest that takes him...

A través de la contemplación silenciosa del mundo que lo rodea, Tanizaki desvela el misterio de la sombra, que no es otro que la esencia misma de la belleza, con un estilo sencillo y ameno pero asombrosamente equilibrado, sereno y sutil.

Based on events that took place between 960 and 1020 AD, Njál 's Saga is a mesmerizing drama about a multigenerational cycle of violence and retribution, and the feuds and passions that perpetuate it. The eponymous sage Njál, known for his keen legal mind, is one of Iceland's pre-eminent men, along with Gunnar of Hlidarendi, a fierce and formidable warrior married to the diabolical Hallgerd, whose conniving instigates the interminable pattern of romance, action and brutality - until one unforgivable act ends it all.

Autor irrepetible, forjador de un nuevo modo de ver y contar, maestro del cuento, la literatura en Chéjov se filtra en cada palabra que esculpía, más allá de su obra de ficción: "la literatura es mi amante". Amor, vida y literatura. Eso es lo que el lector disfrutará con esta compilación de cartas y aforismos en los que la figura de Chéjov aumenta, crece y nos atraviesa porque quizá no haya mejor lectura que internarse en la mente, en las palabras secretas, en la sensibilidad de un genio.

In this essay, Orwell describes his personal journey to becoming a writer and offers some important motives for writing. Moving from his experience of writing his first completed poems to trying his hand at short stories, to finding fame as a fully fledged writer, Orwell discusses the importance of writing, his continuous technique and sets out some important motives for becoming a writer yourself.