Alberto Manguel

6 days ago | elpais.com | Alberto Manguel |Laura Fernandez |Laura Fernández

El DebateColumnaArtículos estrictamente de opinión que responden al estilo propio del autor. Estos textos de opinión han de basarse en datos verificados y ser respetuosos con las personas aunque se critiquen sus actos.

6 days ago | elpais.diariosergipano.net | Alberto Manguel |Laura Fernandez |Laura Fernández

En el Día del Libro, el ciudadano curioso se va a encontrar con decenas de recomendaciones de libros y el consejo general de leer a menudo. Pero, ¿leer por leer? ¿Da igual lo que se lea? ¿Lo importante es el hábito, más que el contenido? Puede ser que la literatura llamada de consumo o ‘best seller’ que impulsa la industria del libro pueda llegar a convertirse en una pasarela para que el lector acceda a otro tipo de creación literaria.

Dec 4, 2024 | the-tls.co.uk | Alberto Manguel

Welcome to the TLSWinner of the 2024 Niche Market Newspaper of the Year Award and proudly niche since 1902.

Dec 4, 2024 | the-tls.co.uk | Harry Strawson |Mia Levitin |Alberto Manguel |Christy Edwall

“If it keeps on rainin’”, sings Robert Plant on Led Zeppelin’s 1971 track, “levee’s gonna break.” The song is a cover of a 1929 recording by Kansas Joe and Memphis Minnie, inspired by the Great Mississippi flood of 1927; the untitled (fourth) album on which it appeared went on to sell more than 37 million copies. In the world of record-label scouts known as “song-catchers”, conjured up in Xan Brooks’s well-crafted new work of historical fiction, that is what is known as a very big fish.

Oct 13, 2024 | news.italy24.press | Alberto Manguel

A woman in a sober black dress leans on a table between a door frame and a picture frame, although both the woman and the table themselves seem to be supported by something unmanifest. A man sits at a desk covered in books, the whiteness of the paper in his hand mirrors the whiteness of his collar, the earth-colored background and the man blend into one another.