The writer Siri Hustvedt says goodbye to her husband, Paul Auster: “I would have liked to announce his death”
“I was naive, but I would have liked to have been the person to announce the death of my husband, ...
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A literary ‘no to war’
I recently received a message from a friend who lives in Estonia: he respectfully reproached me for my pacifist stance ...
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 ...
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 ...
Sandrine Destombes, the author who finds happiness in the most twisted thrillers
Here is an author who, the happier she is, the darker her stories become. That's why Sandrine Destombes waits for ...
Sally Hayden: “Our taxes serve to reinforce dictators, warlords and systems that exploit other human beings”
A person does not always decide what cause they are going to dedicate their life to. Sometimes it is the ...
Joan of Arc as she has never been seen: ugly, corpulent, victim of her father's abuse, lethal warrior and empowered woman of action
Joan of Arc, the historical French heroine burned for heresy at the stake in Rouen in 1431 (she was burned ...
The siege of Mariupol from within, humanity subject to the rain, the biography of Gabriela Mistral and other books of the week
According to a UN report, the absence of water has killed 650,000 people in the last fifty years and is ...
Fachosphere
I was alarmed by the title of a book with a very complex question. It was called What do we ...
