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)

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...