Four centuries of 'Quixote'
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Cities on five continents will hold a series of cultural events next year in honor of Don Quixote, 400 years after Miguel de Cervantes brought the character to life, Spanish Culture Minister Carmen Calvo ...
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Fans of Colombian author Gabriel Garcia  Marquez, renowned for his classic "One Hundred Years of  Solitude," marked his 80th birthday on Tuesday with readings  and celebrations from Spain to South America.
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Complutense University in Madrid has signed an agreement with Google to enable the search giant to scan its library of 3 million works, becoming the first non-english library to join the Google Book Project. Spanish-language books including those from Cervantes and Sor Juana Ines will be digitized.
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Welcome to the fourth installment in a series examining how the ideas of great philosophers can relate to the art of investing.
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According to Kenyon and Bromley&#39;s simulation, such an encounter took place more than 4 billion years ago - 100-200 million years after the Sun&#39;s birth.
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ROSARIO, ARGENTINA.- The Museo Historico Provincial Doctor Julio Marc presents A tour of Spanish Avant-garde. A snapshot of Ramon Gomez de la Serna, through February 20, 2005.
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The last century, through its great cataclysms, offers two clear, ringing, and, unfortunately, contradictory lessons.
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Thriller writer Ken Follett, whose historical novel "The Pillars of the Earth" was a top favourite in Spain for two decades, has hit the jackpot again with the sequel, media reports said Saturday.
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From Narnia to a Space Odyssey is a collection of the infrequent correspondence between noted authors Arthur C. Clarke and C.S. Lewis. I didn't even know they had corresponded, so I picked the book up from a bargain shelf for $4, and it turned out to be a fairly interesting if not particularly substantial bit of history, focusing mainly on their disagreements over space travel, and mainly initiated and driven by Clarke's attempts to engage Lewis in debate on the matter.
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Zeno of Elea famously postulated his many paradoxes in defence of Parmenides' worldview: that all is "oneness," and pluralism is merely an illusion.    Of his forty paradoxes, the four most enduring have fascinated philosophers, mathematicians, and regular pundits for millennia.    As one of the many pundits ensnared by Zeno's challenges, I will present my own analysis of arguably his most famous paradox of all: The race between Achilles and the tortoise.
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Key: F-Fiction; NF-Nonfiction; H-Hardcover; P-Paperback
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For 250 years, the cryptic inscription has exercised the minds of Britain&#39;s finest theologians, historians and scientists, including Charles Darwin, Josiah Wedgwood
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Arts & entertainment: As Granta magazine celebrates its 100th issue, we ask how a Cambridge journal conquered the literary world
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Thereâs a reason that references to Antonin Artaudâs âThe Cenciâ generally come with the words ârarely seenâ attached.
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BARCELONA, Spain  - There is often talk of two Spains, right and left or traditional and modern; the debate will go on for years but one issue was settled long ago.
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By Simon Neville  IT is a site that has always entertained an audience of some sort, although the performers these days are very different from those in the late 1800s.
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It was August 1936 when Garcia Lorca, who romanticized the ruggedness of the landscape and the people of southern Spain in poetry and plays, and who stated, I will always be on the side of those who have ...