Examination
Mesa, Sara
Pages: 232

The narrator of this novel is in school in order to consolidate her professional future. She has obtained a temporary position in an administrative office, and a competitive e...

Italy (La Nuova Frontiera)

Santander, 1936
Pombo, Álvaro
Pages: 336

The troubles and adventures of a teenager in 1930s Santander. This novel's protagonist is named Álvaro Pombo Caller, and although he doesn't like it, his fri...

The Mushroom Planet
Yehya, Naief
Pages: 216

A history about the use of psychedelic mushrooms and LSD, from the Stone Age to Silicon Valley   They appeared (arrived?) here millions of years before us. Hundreds...

The uncloistered one
Pombo, Álvaro
Pages: 232

A dazzling novel about the depths of the human soul, faith, doubts, deceptions and self-deceptions, and unspeakable desires. At the age of seventy-two, Juan Cabrera lives p...

Idolaters and All Who Love
Murad Konings, Adriana
Pages: 320

An unsettlingly entertaining novel about pets, grief, ghostly apparitions, and the desire for company. With her hands trembling from tears and shock, Elizabeth Jameson lea...

The Age of Revenge
Rizzi, Andrea
Pages: 184

Faced with the anguish and confusion about the direction of a rapidly changing world, this text situates, clarifies, and proposes future scenarios. The world is rushing int...

A Brief History of Darkness: A Defense of Movie Theaters in the Streaming Era
Monroy, Vicente
Pages: 104

A beautiful, emotional, and committed vindication of darkness as a space of freedom, resistance, knowledge, and transgression. In our culture, we tend to associate darkness...

Racist Disposession: Towards an Anti-colonial Environmentalism
Sánchez Contreras, Josefa
Pages: 104

A plea for indigenous and anti-racist struggles. If racism had the function of legitimizing the dispossession of the global South in order to achieve the industrialization...

The Best of Impossible Worlds: A Journey to the Multiverse of Reality Shifting
Ventura, Gabriel
Pages: 144

A fascinating essay on an emerging social phenomenon among digital natives: increasingly living in the virtual world more than in the real one.   During the pandemi...

Witchcraft
Torné, Gonzalo
Pages: 400

A portrait of new forms of relationships, the dangers of nostalgia and the struggle to find meaning and purpose. While summering in his childhood village, Diego, the forty...

Like a Heartbeat in a Microphone
Queraltó, Clara
Pages: 208

An absorbing play of mirrors that shows us the workings of attraction and desire. This novel uses a precise and polished style to explore the workings of seduction and at...

Who is Afraid of Francisco Franco?
Rico, Daniel
Pages: 160

Should statues be taken down? Should we remove all traces of past regimes that have been surpassed? We live in iconoclastic times. We want to settle a score with the past b...

I Am Not a Robot
Villoro, Juan
Pages: 320

A reflection on how the digital world transforms our lives and our relationship with reading. We are now digital beings. We have transi- tioned from McLuhan’s Gutenbe...

Portugal (Zigurate)

Don't Think, Look
Ibarz, Mercè
Pages: 104

A delightful book for art lovers, where intimate memory goes hand in hand with the knowledge accumulated over a lifetime dedicated to cultural journalism. As an art profess...

Echoes of Melancoly
Bartra, Roger
Pages: 208

A delightful journey in search of the traces that melancholy has left in classical music. The author explores the relationship between a musical form and the emotional reac...

The Golden Fractures
Díaz-Mas, Paloma
Pages: 160

A novel about accepting the cracks and fissures that shape our lives. The novel begins with the sudden death of the narrator’s younger brother, a fifty-year-old histo...