Nero's Rome was not so different from today's world: impossible rents, gentrification and chaotic traffic
In the 1st century AD, Rome was the first city with a million inhabitants. Until the 19th century, with Beijing ...
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Reality by surprise
There is a phrase from the Argentine writer Fabián Casas: “The technique that is used to live is used to ...
wonderful silence
The word noise appears very early in Don Quijote of La Mancha. Alluding in the first person to his bitter ...
From Plutarco to the Simpsons and from César to Maradona: Daniel López Valle, another way of telling history
Daniel López Valle (Elche, 41 years old) states that his intention has never been to demystify history, “because it demystifies ...
Brian Merchant, author: “Luddites are more dangerous to the rich than Robin Hood”
The Luddites have been a great historical resource. Any showy enemy of anything that looked like technological progress has been ...
Smoke, trumpets and hi-fi: the fascinating Japanese jazz bars
On July 14, 1964, Miles Davis began his tour in Japan with a concert in which he was accompanied by ...
What if '1984', Orwell's dystopia, had starred a woman?
Suzanna Hamilton plays Julia in the film version of Michael Radford's '1984', released in 1984.Virgin - Umbrella-Rosenblum Film (Collection ChristopheL ...
The writer who won the main Japanese literary award with a novel written with support from ChatGPT: “AI helps you compensate for your weaknesses”
Rie Kudan, the 33-year-old Japanese writer who won the Akutagawa award, the highest award in Japanese literature, with a book ...
Joyce Carol Oates and Rebecca Makkai draw two impeccable stories about violence against women
The noir genre focuses again and again on the same idea: that of the serial killer presented, whether one likes ...
The regional government allocates 15 million to guarantee free textbooks
The regional government allocates 15 million euros to guarantee free textbooks next year for all students enrolled in centers supported ...
