Babelia This week is entirely dedicated to analyzing the cultural battle that is being waged in the United States, parallel to the social and political battle, in the face of the upcoming elections on November 5. A periodic event – remember, every four years, on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November – but this time it seems to have greater significance, not in vain are they already described as the “elections of the century” although the election has barely passed. quarter of the century.
And in the books section, we highlight Blackouts, by Justin Torres, which links the career of the researcher, writer and activist queer from the beginning of the 20th century Jan Gay with the history of discrimination of the LGTBI community in the United States.
Also in narrative, we analyze The ancient hours, a short novel by Michael Bible that navigates questions such as what drives a person to commit a destructive act in a story that revolves around an accidental murderer. In this case, a teenager who wants to commit self-immolation in a church ends up causing a massacre. For its part, Two or three things that are clear to me, is a sample of social literature in which Dorothy Allison explores the little stories of her own family, which thus become a wonderful x-ray of the so-called white trashthe impoverished white classes in the economic giant of America.
The critics of Babelia They have also reviewed essays such as <a href="https://www.world-today-news.com/donald-trump-whats-behind-the-us-presidents-baltimore-attack/" title="Donald Trump: What's behind the US President's Baltimore attack”>Kamala Harris, the firstby María Ramírez, an updated review (a first version was published in 2020 in digital version) of the profile of the woman who can change the history of the country and, above all —”Yes, We Kam”—, put a stop to the populist drift embodied by Donald Trump; Black prophetic firea long conversation by Cornel West with Christa Buschendorf in which they promote pacifist, anti-racist, interreligious and interethnic consciousness in the United States through six black prophetic figures: Frederik Douglass, WEB du Bois, Martin Luther King, Ella Baker, Malcolm X and Ida B. Wells; and Why America Broke. Populism and polarization in the Trump erain which Roger Senserrich, starting from the difficulty of giving simple explanations to complex situations, tries to give the keys to the country’s reactionary drift, which is leading to an extreme division in American society.
This strange and experimental novel, winner of the National Book Award, reflects the history of sexual difference through the Socratic dialogue, false but illuminating, between two men from different generations. A ‘queer’ work in substance and form.
Read the entire review here Alex Vicente.
Set in the mental space of the Southern Gothic, this short novel navigates questions such as what drives a person to commit a destructive act in a story that revolves around an accidental murderer.
Read the entire review here Marta Peirano.
The journalist reissues her profile of the candidate for the presidency of the United States, offering a more compact and complete version of the trajectory of a politician unfairly undervalued and treated with condescension.
Read the entire review here Jordi Gracia.
The philosopher and theologian Cornel West, candidate for the presidency of the United States for the Green Party, together with Christa Buschendorf, promotes pacifist, anti-racist, interreligious and interethnic consciousness in the United States.
Read the entire review here Juan José Tamayo.
