Juan Gelman, an Argentine poet who challenged the petty and profound tyrannies of his country’s military junta, died Tuesday at his home in Mexico City. He was 83, The New York Times reports.
Juan Gelman, an Argentine poet who challenged the petty and profound tyrannies of his country’s military junta, died Tuesday at his home in Mexico City. He was 83, The New York Times reports.
The World Digital Library (WDL) makes available on the Internet, free of charge and in multilingual format, significant primary materials from countries and cultures around the world. It is a collaborative project of the U.S. Library of Congress, UNESCO, and partners throughout the world.
This edition features the musical and social media trends for 2014, the partnership between El Corte Inglés and Casa del Libro to sell e-books, and more.
Both intensive and non-intensive language courses produce students with similar language abilities, according to a recent internal case study conducted by the Georgetown University German Department.
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.
