Jerusalem, a history of violence and coexistence
Jerusalem, to paraphrase what Winston Churchill said of the Balkans, has produced more history than it can digest. Since the ...
Tag: Literary criticism
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'The silence of war', Antonio Monegal's plea against the epic of war
War, which is inherent to humanity, has a language that worked before and works now. It even has its structure ...
'Like the Greeks', in the culinary nation of Guillem Martínez
Each one has their circles of opinion and their paths are inscrutable. In mine, I have often found myself defending ...
'Orquesta', by Miqui Otero: a classic rural novel where Music is the narrator
We are used to identifying Miqui Otero (Barcelona, 1980) with the great tradition of the novel about his city, reinterpreted ...
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A recognizable Murakami, a transgressive chronicle of the Indies, hell in a housing estate and other books of the week
A new book by Haruki Murakami is always good news for his millions of followers. And the writer, winner of ...
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 ...
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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 ...
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A boring quantum Sunday in vignettes, to be or not to be 'woke', Simone Weil in the Civil War and other books of the week
Leaving testimony throughout 500 pages of a single day—Sunday, to make things even more boring—of the life of your most ...
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'Plato of Athens', by Robin Waterfield: the gold of the thinker who brought philosophy out of poverty
If for Hegel Plato is the teacher of the human race, for Alfred North Whitehead the entire history of philosophy ...
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'Killing the Director', by Bru Rovira: a catharsis against the decadence of the media
The journalist Bru Rovira was for years one of the great war correspondents of the Spanish press, which before the ...
