The jurist and director of the Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) Santiago Muñoz Machado has just published ‘of democracy in Latin America’ (Taurus), a enlightening and necessary essay that travels through the political history of the Hispanic hemisphere and alert to the new and dangerous populisms. We maintain an in -depth talk with Santiago Muñoz Machado, … in which, among other statements, he points out “perpetuation in power, avoiding alternation … if it happened in Spain we would be the most unfortunate in the world.” Together with the interview, we include the criticism of the book.
On the other hand, the critics of the supplement explore some of the most relevant titles, recently. Among others, in narrative, ‘Niagara’ (Lumen), an extraordinary novel by Joyce Carol Oates, which now recovers. The Nobel candidate builds a great metaphor with the Niagara cataracts; ‘Long Island’s commitment’. Taffy Brodesser Akner, based on a real case, tells what happens in the 80s to a rich family, whose patriarch is kidnapped; ‘Silbid in the dark wind’ (Circle of Chalk), novel by María Navarro Skaranger, one of the most promising voices of current Norwegian literature; ‘My husband’ (Nordic), perfect debut of the French Maud Ventura who immerses us in the paranoia of love; ‘The case of cut heads’ (Nordic), amazing proposal, with endearing characters, by the writer and filmmaker Gonzalo Suárez.
In non -fiction, ‘Carmen Martín Gaite. A biography ‘(Tusquets), Comillas 2025 unanimously. Its author, José Teruel, looks for the keys to the personal and literary wealth of the great writer of the 1950 generation; ‘My years with Ross’ (Walden). James Thuber, who was one of the pillars of ‘The New Yaker’, evokes the figure of his first editor, Harold Ross, and his personal and professional relationship with him; and ‘Victoria de los Angeles. Everything seemed so simple ‘(Ficta), an achieved portrait of the illustrious soprano Barcelona, by Pep Gorgori. In comics, ‘The incorrigible’ (Errata Naturae), the New York Julia Wert He has humor, ingenuity and naif drawings, not only how he left alcohol, but also addresses sociology and psychology of the city of skyscrapers.
Likewise, we interviewed the poet Luis Antonio de Villena, who publishes ‘miserable old age’ (viewer), a love song to lost youth.
The art section opens its pages with a large anthological of the Irish creator Sean Scully, a master of abstraction. The appointment, until July 6, at the Catalunya La Pedrera Foundation. And, among other exhibitions, he deals with ‘Hello Everyone’, starring Laia Estruch, the first sample of the Manuel Segade era in the Madrid Museum Reina Sofía; ‘In motion’, with which the Albarrán Bourdais gallery in Madrid rescues Julio Le Parc, a reference of kinetism. We also offer an interview with Jesús Madriñán following the exhibition ‘Fugaces’ affections’, in the thermal-Malaga, in which the photographer again deploy his interest in youth, now through his emotional relationships.
In Cinema, we review the coincidence on the big screen of ‘Apartes de Soledad’, by Albert Serra, about the bullfighter Andrés Roca Rey, and ‘Morlaix’, by Jaime Rosales, which tells the life of a group of adolescents in the last year of institute in a small town in the French Brittany. Each in their own way, reveal their personal style.
The firms of Piedad Bonnett; Jesús García Calero; the academic José María Bermúdez de Castro; Jorge Freire; Carlos Aganzo; Javier Villuendas, Javier Díaz-Guardiola and Rebeca Argudo, next to a new installment of the hilarious series ‘Because you’, by Rodrigo Cortés, complete an essential number.
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