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 | Babelia

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 | Babelia

Where did the victims of heroin in the 1980s in Spain go? In it 1979, Novelist Juan Trejo investigates the premature death of his older sister, Nela, in 1979, not only to remember who that teenager was who, like so many others, became hooked on drugs in those years, but also to question the shared … Read more

Hollywood actress stars in a Finnish film – First picture released – 2024-09-06 12:35:40

Hollywood actress stars in a Finnish film – First picture released
 – 2024-09-06 12:35:40

The Kesäkirja movie starring Glenn Close, based on Tove Jansson’s book, will be released in Finland in January. Glenn Close shot the movie Kesäkirja in Finland last year. AOP Last summer, a film was filmed in Finland with a Hollywood ensemble. Now the film company SF Studios announces that Tove Jansson’s based on the work … Read more

Well-being, by Nathan Hill: a romantic summit

Well-being, by Nathan Hill: a romantic summit

THE CHRONICLE OF ERIC NEUHOFF – There is everything in this 700-page novel. A love story, the portrait of a continent with its metropolises and its countryside, a reflection on algorithms and an immense nostalgia. Alert all patrols. The romance is back. Hallelujah! Well-being is full of them by the ton. It almost makes you … Read more

Night Spectator – on Diary of a Blackmailer by Philippe Vasset

Night Spectator – on Diary of a Blackmailer by Philippe Vasset

Night Spectator – on Diary of a Blackmailer de Philippe Vasset By Fabrice Gabriel Without seeming to, Philippe Vasset is one of the most exciting writers of today, who experiments from book to book with original forms to question the contemporary world and invent a kind of ironic and virtuoso virtual realism. His Diary of … Read more

«’Tierra y sangre’ is a purely flamenco show»

«’Tierra y sangre’ is a purely flamenco show»

Patio Flamenco’s programme will be opened today at 10pm by Fraskito, Francisco Rodríguez Fernández, with Tierra y sangre. The musician told La Tribuna de Albacete about the unique features of this recital. Patio Flamenco opens today… That is a source of pride for me, I am very happy. For me, Albacete is a very good … Read more

The witcher is back. After more than ten years, Sapkowski finished another book

The witcher is back. After more than ten years, Sapkowski finished another book

“I worked on the new book for about two years,” confided Andrzej Sapkowski in an interview for the French magazine Chimères. According to him, it should appear on the shelves of Polish bookstores before Christmas this year, and it should be published in other countries at the beginning of next year. Already at last year’s … Read more

Concerts in Dresden: Tips for live music in September 2024

Concerts in Dresden: Tips for live music in September 2024

Swedish post-rock: EF You might think that EF are a typical post-rock band, combining Nordic melancholy, indie rock elements and occasional hardcore outbursts in their music. But the amazing thing about this band, which was founded in Gothenburg in 2003, is that it can be hard and sweet at the same time. The four Swedes … Read more

Antonella Lattanzi, the torture of taking the desire to be a mother to the extreme

Antonella Lattanzi, the torture of taking the desire to be a mother to the extreme

“This whole story is a story of blood,” he writes. Antonella Lattanzi (Bari, 1979) in his book The things that are never told (Reservoir Books, 2024). “Do I really have to tell these things? These things that are not told, very simple things, that one must have experienced first-hand, as Simenon says,” he asks himself … Read more

The Moomins made her famous. The artist dealt with war and homosexuality – Seznam Zpravy

The Moomins made her famous. The artist dealt with war and homosexuality – Seznam Zpravy

The first Moomin book was published by Tove Jansson at the end of the Second World War. It was with her that the artist from Finland worked in Journey to Daddy. In the stories about the Moomins, she hid the subject of homosexuality, which was a crime in her native country until 1971. She lived … Read more

Who is the ‘ketamine queen’ accused of supplying the ‘Friends’ star?

Who is the ‘ketamine queen’ accused of supplying the ‘Friends’ star?

If prosecutors can prove that Jasvenn Sangha provided the “Friends” star with drugs, she could spend the rest of her life in prison. In Hollywood, she was nicknamed the “Queen of Ketamine”according to the prosecution. But when Jasveen Sangha appeared in court for selling the bottle of psychotropic drugs that caused the death of the … Read more