‘Occasions’: Do you know Rubén Lardín?
Reading Rubén Lardín (Barcelona, 1972) is like looking at several things (very good things, of course) at the same time. ...
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Illustrator Bea Lema wins the National Comic Award for an autobiographical work on mental health
The illustrator and comic book author Bea Lema was awarded this Monday with the 2024 National Comic Award for the ...
Mario Cuenca Sandoval: “I would never accept a commission for propaganda purposes”
Mario Cuenca Sandoval (Sabadell, 1975) is a poet and narrator. His latest novel, Aurora Q. (Galaxia Gutenberg) reconstructs the media-covered ...
Masterful ‘Misericordia’ by Lídia Jorge: desire and fatigue for the last time
Forty days before she died, the mother of the Portuguese author Lídia Jorge (Boliqueime, 78 years old) asked her daughter ...
Don’t trust
I am referring to writers. More specifically, I am referring to writers who do not have an edifying conception of ...
Discussing the new Yuval Noah Harari, the vitalism of Maruja Torres, the fascist funeral of José Antonio and other books of the week
A few months ago Javier Sampedro wrote a critical review of Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari ten years after its ...
Maria Hesse: “I know what it is like to be physically and mentally exhausted from working so much; it kills you”
The fear (Lumen) is perhaps the most personal project of María Hesse (Huelva, 42 years old), an autofiction book that ...
Fania Davis: “My mother told us that the world would change because of us. Those were her instructions and I continue to follow them”
Fania Davis has been active in almost all anti-racist movements. Born in Birmingham (United States) in the 1950s, at a ...
Caroline O’Donoghue’s ‘The Rachel Factor’: A Fun Millennial Horror Story
Irish writer Caroline O'Donoghue, in October 2023 in Cheltenham (England).David Levenson (Getty Images)The new wave of Irish female writers is ...
Matt Haig: “It’s easy to feel ashamed as a Brit when you see mass tourism in Spain”
Matt was a young Englishman in Ibiza doing what young Englishmen do in Ibiza. Partying, drinking, drugs… that was more ...