'Corporal Symphony', all the verses of Fernando Aramburu
Fernando Aramburu has occupied an almost hidden place in the wide space of Spanish poetry in recent decades despite timidly ...
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Does desire lead us to fulfillment or permanent dissatisfaction?
Detail from The Kiss, 1907-08, by Gustav Klimt.Art Images/Getty Images“Desire is the essence of man,” wrote 17th-century philosopher Baruch Spinoza. ...
'Coup de grace', by Dennis Lehane: a story of poor people, mafia and racism in Boston
American writer Dennis Lehane.Gaby Gerster The seven-year wait since Dennis Lehane's last installment (Dorchester, Massachusetts, 1965) has been worth it. ...
Ana Carrasco Conde, philosopher: “Nothing more absurd than fleeing from death, it always accompanies you”
She is known as “the philosopher of evil.” But what attracts her is the ineffable, the unspeakable, putting words to ...
'God, country, king', a global look at Carlism: transnational, heterogeneous and anti-masonic
Historiography continues to pay notable attention to Carlism. Within this bibliography Jordi Canal occupies a prominent place. In 2000 he ...
Four travel bookstores in Madrid to dream of the next destination
“Travelling changes you. As you move through this life and this world, you change things slightly, you leave marks, even ...
The cuisine of viscera, hearts, tongues and brains: from delicacies to offal
Spain is a land of sausages, noble meats and rich delicacies made with the noblest parts of the animal, what ...
Who can write for the love of art: the silenced cost of becoming an author
Can you cheat with authorship without being guilty of conscience? In Nothing is true, the autofiction of the Italian Veronica ...
A brilliant anthology of the poets of the Golden Ages, the dishonest police surrender of Fred Vargas and other books of the week
A new volume of Cátedra's Letras Hispánicas collection, Poetry of the 16th and 17th centuries, edited by Pedro Ruiz Pérez, ...
Álvaro Pombo wins the Francisco Umbral award for the best book of 2023
The novel Santander, 1936 published by Anagrama in January 2023, it has been chosen as the best book of the ...
