'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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'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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
'The style of the elements', by Rodrigo Fresán: a masterful free autobiography against mass-produced novels
Scholem tells an anecdote about Walter Benjamin: when he was a student he despaired of the mediocrity of his teachers. ...
'Ignorance', by Peter Burke: the worst thing is not knowing that you don't know
In our days, ignorance is the great ignored. Although perhaps it would be more accurate to say that it is ...
The esoteric symbology of ancient Egypt, Vivian Gornick's writing manual and other books of the week
There is something that the British know how to do perfectly: being absolutely brilliant when they put their mind to ...
'Exteriors of Paradise', by Bernardo Atxaga: prison resignation and flashes of essential literature
Maybe I should start the review of the new book by the Basque writer Bernardo Atxaga, Exteriors of paradise, conveying ...
