Hernan Diaz. Anagram / Periscope With this unsurpassed feat, the Argentine living in the United States Hernán Díaz, who writes directly in English, won the latest Pulitzer Prize for literature. A complex puzzle that goes through different styles and in the end composes a figure that tells us about the corrupting power of money and … Read more
The streets of the Satauteño municipality have small street libraries, book houses that seek to promote access to reading and exchange of copies between regulars and new readers. «The idea is to generate a network of readers; that neighbors share books that they liked and remove a title that catches their attention,” says Avelina Fernández … Read more
According to the author Justin Torres, “backstory and exposition are tricks of the adult mind.” That explains why his first novel, “We the Animals,” which is told from the shared perspective of three young brothers in upstate New York, unfolds not as a narrative but as a string of vignettes. The semi-autobiographical novel describes a … Read more
Being revolutionary has never been so comfortable or so cheap as in these times. There are philosophies that consider that taking a walk, not having a car, not answering emails outside of working hours or living in a house with mountain views are insurrectionary actions. Even shame is revolutionary, according to a book by Frédéric … Read more
“Thursday, December 28. Book signing of Pedro Sanchez (51 years) in Doña Leo’s bookstore“, comes to announce the photograph that he shared this day the 28th, on his social network Twitter, the writer Maximo Huerta (52). A publication in the form of a snapshot at least amazing which was not accompanied by any text. Quickly, … Read more
Contested Europe: From the Kaiser to Brexit (Longman History of Modern Europe) Review the book “Contested Europe: From the Kaiser to Brexit (Longman History of Modern Europe)” Europe Contested analyses the failures and achievements of an astonishing era of economic advance and political chaos, from the First World War up to the present day. Beginning … Read more
“I’m afraid of being closed off in my words… voiceless, mute,” says Anastasia, one of the protagonists of The Silence That Falls (Potencia Editora), the first novel by authors Adriana Taschetta and Elida Trossero, as a synthesis of a plot that delves into what is said and what is not said. Taschetta (72) – pedagogue, … Read more
The last week of the last Madrid Book Fair, already in June, a question began to circulate among readers walking through El Retiro: who was Lorenzo G. Acebedo, the mysterious author of La tavern de Silos? Signed with a pseudonym, the novel, starring Gonzalo de Berceo, was the ideal mix between the noir and historical … Read more
In recent months, several books about music, so we have chosen five to give as gifts and make all music lovers happy. Among its pages you will find pillars of American rock, but you will also immerse yourself in short stories and theatrical texts. You will discover songs that changed your life and you will … Read more
You have to listen to music, sing it or dance to it. But we can understand it much better if we also read about it. The literatura musical It is a genre in itself, and can be approached from a thousand different perspectives. From the biography that delves into the hidden ins and outs of … Read more