Faustino Chimalpopoca, the indigenous intellectual who offered the Aztec throne to Emperor Maximilian
When the liberals entered Faustino Chimalpopoca's house to arrest him, the indigenous intellectual had hidden to save his life. The ...
Tag: Biographies
Branko Milanovic, the political economist of global inequality
It is the most famous elephant in history. It was just over a decade ago, shortly before Christmas 2013, when ...
Josep Pla: an encyclopedic biography
Until now there was a Josep Pla; From this ungovernable volume there is another Pla, truer, more authentic, millimetrically followed ...
One leader is not enough
In times of messianic leaders, or with aspirations to be one, it is worth reviewing the recent history of Colombia ...
‘The Black Spartacus’, by Sudhir Hazareesingh: a slave with the “soul of a free man”
Any traveler has probably come across some space in France dedicated to the memory of Toussaint Louverture, one of the ...
The void left by the death of a child narrated by Aramburu, magical realism to tell the story of the Civil War, Boyero naked and other books of the week
On October 23, 1980, a gas explosion at the Marcelino Ugalde national school in the town of Ortuella (Bizkaia) killed ...
Milena: much more than a love story with Kafka
Monika Zgustova could have written a standard biography or addressed the centenary of Kafka's death, which falls in 2024, with ...
The colossal novel by Sara Barquinero, a Nadal Award between the 'thriller' and the 'western', the dark side of Bill Gates and other books of the week
“Two things happen,” says essayist and literary critic Nadal Suau in his review of Scorpions, by Sara Barquinero: “the first, ...
Why doesn't Paco de Lucía have a successor?
At the beginning it was the father, Antonio Sánchez Pecino. Then, his brother, Ramón, who before leaving for military service ...
Kirsten Flagstad, the voice of the 20th century who managed to defeat the 'fake news' that linked her to the Nazis
On February 2, 1935, a Norwegian soprano named Kirsten Flagstad (Hamar, 1895 - Oslo, 1962) caused a sensation in her ...
