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Rodrigo Moya, one of Mexico’s most renowned photographers, has died at 91. He turned his lens on beauty and strife in a ...
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Politics of spectacle
Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa says in his book, The Civilisation of the Spectacle, that culture has become mere entertainment for the masses. It distracts us from what is important.
Luis is a new fan of the author Mario Vargas Llosa and a longtime listener of the singer-songwriter Jorge Drexler. His other recommendations include “Femininomenon,” by Chappell Roan; The Bear; and ...
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Mario Vargas Llosa, an aristocrat of Spanish ancestry, was sent to Lima’s military academy to sweat the love of literature out of him. Instead, the experience gave us his first novel, The Time ...
Mario Vargas Llosa, a versatile and influential writer, explored realism and social issues in his vast body of work.
Tunku Varadarajan’s op-ed “Vargas Llosa Stood for Freedom Against the Nationalist Tide” (April 16) is troubling despite its intent to praise Mario Vargas Llosa. The claim that the most ...
The great Peruvian novelist and classical liberal Mario Vargas Llosa passed away on April 13 in Lima, Peru. He was 89.
The great Peruvian novelist and classical liberal Mario Vargas Llosa passed away on April 13 in Lima, Peru. He was 89.
Peruvian novelist Mario Vargas Llosa, winner of this year's Nobel Prize for literature, reacts during a news conference held for the presentation of his book " El sueno del Celta" (The dream of ...
Mario Vargas Llosa, a Nobel literature laureate who challenged Peru's powerful military in the early 1960s, has died at 89 surrounded by family, his children say. Iran announced missile attacks ...