For Jessica Last week, I happened upon this list titled “15 Truths about being a professional dancer”. It turns out the writer herself was inspired by yet another list titled “16 Harsh Truths that Make us Stronger”. I found the lists deeply honest and incredibly inspiring and just what I needed to give myself perspective […]

Detalle de la portada de Max y los felinos. Por Luiz Schwarcz  (publicado originalmente en el blog de la editorial Companhia das Letras) Unos pocos días después de que el libro Las aventuras de Pi ganase el premio Booker –el premio literario más prestigioso del Reino Unido y unos de los más serios y mejor organizados […]

Science It is a matter of common knowledge that our internal clocks dictate our patterns of eating and sleeping. But how did this internal clock -or, more specifically, clocks- evolve in our ancestors? This article explores the sources for our internal rhythms and how these are related to the evolution of the Earth, as well […]

I began packing three days before departure. Contrary to what I’ve heard most people say, I actually love packing. I derive great pleasure from choosing and discarding items, deciding between the absolutely necessary, the preferred and the downright whimsical choices. Choosing my reading material for the airplane fills me with as much, if not more […]

1. It may rarely happen that the translation surpasses its original. It may be even rarer still that the original author himself would admit to this. This is the case of Gabriel García Márquez, who probably afflicted by a case of excessive modesty has declared Gregory Rabassa’s English translation of One Hundred Years of Solitude […]