Anatomy of the national snobbery, a well-deserved best-seller, ‘Star Wars’ against Hollywood and other books of the week
Admitted to a nursing home, already close to death, the mother of the Portuguese author Lídia Jorge asked her daughter ...
Tag: writing
‘I want to and I can’t. A story of the posh people of Spain’: cayetanos, fachalecos and other species
Are they born or made? Do they work hard or are they given it? Do they get labeled by others ...
Ángelo Néstore, catalyst of young poetry in Spanish: “A poet is a person looking at the cloud and the shapes that the cloud takes”
Angelo Néstore remembers the date that changed everything: February 19, 2020. It is true that he shares it with practically ...
‘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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
‘My Parents’ Spirit Keeps Rising in the Rain’, by Patricio Pron: nightmares, history, crimes and language
Patricio Pron (Rosario, 1975) first published My parents' spirit keeps rising in the rain in 2011 and this year he ...
‘The more people die, the more I want to live’: the fighter Maruja Torres
With her bones in tatters, monthly eye and bladder operations, 10 centimetres shorter and an elephant's memory, Maruja Torres keeps ...
The New Irish Narrative: Unruly and Self-Centered
Maggie O'Farrell (Coleraine, Northern Ireland, 52 years old) says that if she had to take a book to a desert ...
A memory of the victims of heroin in the eighties, Juan Tallón’s foray into fantasy, Joan Didion’s x-ray of the upper middle class and other books of the week
Where did the victims of heroin in the 1980s in Spain go? Nela 1979, Novelist Juan Trejo investigates the premature ...