To the lovers of manuscripts and paper, parchment devotees, Fernando Báez traces 5,000 years of different formats coexisting together in his latest essay.
To the lovers of manuscripts and paper, parchment devotees, Fernando Báez traces 5,000 years of different formats coexisting together in his latest essay.
Nielsen BookScan, part of the Nielsen Company (US) LLC, and America Reads Spanish (ARS) present the free, weekly list of the Spanish bestseller titles in the US Market for week 3 of 2014 (week ending 1/19/2014).
Literal magazine, a quarterly publication in English and Spanish on literature and the arts, now has some new stable mates: bilingual and Spanish-language books by Latin American writers for readers on both sides of the Rio Grande.
A new Spanish and Portuguese Living Learning Community has entered its planning stage. Scheduled to start in the 2015-2016 academic year, the LLC marks Georgetown’s second Romance language-based community.
The College Connections program at Jamestown Community College, in New York state, sponsored the symposium, which coincided with International Education Week. Spanish language students from several school districts participated in the educational sessions, lunch, and a performance by the Infinity program's Steel Pan Alley.
The growing use of tablets means people are reading more e-books than ever. But hardly anyone is giving up print books completely, says Los Angeles Times, according to a message hidden inside a new Pew report on the reading habits of American adults.
April 23 is World Book Night, a night when participants hand out books to teens, young adults and other adults who don’t read or read very little. The event encourages literacy by the giver hand-picking a title from the bestseller list the receiver might enjoy.
2014 marks the centenary of the publication of Juan Ramón Jiménez's more universal work “Platero y Yo”, with activities and publications. El País tells all about it.
Nielsen BookScan, part of the Nielsen Company (US) LLC, and America Reads Spanish (ARS) present the free, weekly list of the Spanish bestseller titles in the US Market for week 2 of 2014 (week ending 1/12/2014).
“Truthout” publishes this opinion piece on the benefits of bilingual educations, and the author states that denying it is an disrespect and discriminatory practice toward the language and cultural rights of other ethnic and linguistic groups.
