Byung-Chul Han and the hopeful mind
Hope is a matter of theology and Marxism. It can be transcendental or historical. For the Greeks it was a ...
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‘The best in the world’, by Juan Tallón: I know who I am or so I think
The subject of this novel could not be more timeless and fascinating: what we could have been and are not. ...
‘Nela 1979’, by Juan Trejo: Where did the victims of heroin go?
We are going to review a book, Nela 1979which, without being a great book, offers valuable suggestions and curiously the ...
The “Yellow House Library” – a local project to get children in a southern Nigerian town back to school
At the new Kpansia market in Yenagoa, the capital of Bayelsa State in southern Nigeria, it is hard not to ...
‘First there was the sea’, by Tomás González: we are particles with impossible projects
A review places a book in the cultural field and also in the market. Beyond utopias of independence of the ...
Mar Benegas, writer: “I remember a girl who told me: ‘I want to be a telephone so that my mother can look at me’”
Mar Benegas (Valencia, 48 years old) is a woman who cares for and values childhood, who speaks slowly and recites ...
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 ...
The terrible daily life under the Israeli occupation, the adventures of the Count of Villamediana, the mantras against immigration and other books of the week
Our (excellent) book of the week addresses a specific drama, the tragedy that occurred on February 16, 2012, for a ...
Mother’s Day: eight books about the different complexities of motherhood
The experience of motherhood and fatherhood, often simplified, nevertheless contains enormous complexity. The same complexity full of edges that marks ...
Young authors… inspiring steps on the path to creativity
Khawla Ali (Dubai) Children’s narrative writings constitute a step towards establishing a generation of intellectuals and thinkers, who have their ...
