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International Thrills: Ramón Díaz Eterovic
The Darkness That Never Leaves
By Layton Green
World-weary private investigators, talking cats, political intrigue, and a murder mystery that reaches into the troubled past of South America: What’s not to like? This month’s globe-trotting literary adventures take us to Chile, a country that stretches almost the length of South America and is home to some of the world’s best hiking, wine, and ski trails. Though known for beautiful nature and the warmth of its people, it carries the dark stain of the Pinochet regime, a brutal military dictatorship in power from to
Our interview subject, Ramón Díaz Eterovic, explores the lingering impact of the regime in DARK ECHOES OF THE PAST, the first of his best-selling novels featuring private investigator Heredia to be translated into English. Ramón is one of Chile’s most beloved authors, and delivers that rare breed of crime novel: a page-turning mystery that serves as a medium for
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Traditionalism (Spain)
Spanish political doctorine in the early 19th century
Traditionalism (Spanish: tradicionalismo) is a Spanish political doctrine formulated in the early 19th century and developed until today. It understands politics as implementing Catholic social teaching and the social kingship of Jesus Christ, with Catholicism as the state religion and Catholic religious criteria regulating public morality and every legal aspect of Spain. In practical terms it advocates a loosely organized monarchy combined with strong royal powers, with some checks and balances provided by organicist representation, and with society structured on a corporative basis. Traditionalism is an ultra-reactionary doctrine; it rejects concepts such as democracy, human rights, constitution, universal suffrage, sovereignty of the people, division of powers, religious liberty, freedom of speech, equality of individuals, and parliamentarism. The doctrine was adopted as the theoretical platfor
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American Egyptologist
When God Looked the Other Way
The Eye of the Poet
Kipling
Frank Lloyd Wright
Shaggy Muses
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Notes and Methods
Scottish Mandarin
Thistle and Bamboo
More than Days and Nights of Hong Kong Internment
Alberto Giacometti—Time Passes Too Soon
An Exile on Planet Earth
Nasser
Dear Queer Self
Mahatma Gandhi
René Magritte
Law Without Values
Piip, Meierovics & Voldemaras: The Baltic States
Big Bosses
Pentecostal Preacher Woman
Professor Baseball
Frida Kahlo
The Secret Lives of Teachers
The Architecture of Vision
J.-K. Huysmans
Once Upon a Life
Simone dem Beauvoir
Charles Darwin
The Correspondence of Hannah Arendt and Gershom Scholem
Alfred Russel Wallace
Richard Owen
The Blues Dream of Billy Boy Arnold
Camus and Sartre
A Sinister Assassin
Madumo, a Man Bewitched
King of Kings
Plato
Weather Forecaster to Research Scientist
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War Diary
Coolie Woman
Theodore Roosevelt
William S. Burroughs
Edison
Margery Kempe
Harold Rosenberg
Serving the Reich
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