Only we are left
Jaime Rodríguez Z. · Galaxia Gutenberg · 2021
“The pandemic puts me in an uncomfortable place, where I have to assume that I need help, that I am vulnerable". With Covid-19 in the background and without concession questioning the (are) masculinity, Rodríguez Z. He moves briskly from poetry to narrative and addresses topics such as anxiety in a raw and shocking style., the father-son relationship, toxicity… Safety pin. S.P.
The Sibyl
Agustina Bessa-Luís · Athenaica · 2021
One of the great novels of the 20th century, which narrates a family and rural epic from the Portuguese north: the lives of three generations of women who run the La Vessada estate, guardians of family legacy. Women who balance the story with Quina as the center, with a complex and discreet personality that earns him the nickname “The Sibyl”. This wonderful novel is told with great lyricism and is of overflowing depth.. LIGHTS ROMERO (Bartleby)
The first astronaut. Valentina Tereixkova and the conquest of space
The bottom of the bottle / Three rooms in Manhattan
The salt of the earth
There is a country where the fog
Gemma Gorga Tushita Edicions · 2021
Gemma Gorga has written a prose diptych consisting of Visible Indian and There is a country where the fog (Tushita, 2018 i 2021). Both books collect travel notes, of diaries, short processes, reflections on books, reading, the cultural contrast, the beauty of nature and the everyday gesture. The first, the result of a trip to the Orient (New Delhi) i plow, from a stay in San Francisco that the author uses to create petite poetic processes, evocative and loaded with meaning and sensitivity. LOURDES TOLEDO
The point about the and
Daniel Mocher, Jon Bengoetxea, Michel F. and Daniel Rivallo Achilles heel · 2021
Daniel Mocher, Jon Bengoetxea, Michel F. and Daniel Rivallo, They are four authors from four cities who decided to unite their talents in the form of a book. Aphorisms that show us four ways of feeling the world. Few words loaded with as many interpretations as there are readers.. Ironies and reflections, nonsense and lucidity, sadness and humor. Now it's your turn, lector, enjoy the road. LAURA NÚÑEZ
open your eyes
Pepa Blanes Off Route · 2021
Pepa Blanes likes to decipher the ideological depth and political aspect of any aspect of life, also the cultural product to which he is professionally dedicated as a journalist for La Ser, the cinema. Especially about cinema, so massive, so subtle sometimes, so influential, an environment controlled from the mecca of capitalism that shapes our vision of the world and our sentimental education. Blanes says that capitalism takes away ideology and political content from everything, and here she is with open your eyes to point out and analyze it when it is camouflaged in the plots of the big screen. He wonders why cinematographic portraits of the working class are scarce, why trans movies have been full of suffering, because black people were always the bad ones, why the poor have no face, why the representation of the east is always done from the west, why the love relationship between Idgie and Ruth was disguised, the two protagonists of Fried green tomatoes, why those who fight against the established order in James Bond movies are very bad guys who only change jackets or why Richard Gere was a fucking wolf of Wall Street in Pretty woman and to all, at the time, we found it honest and charming. The blockbusters of the nineties, passed through the political and feminist sieve of Pepa Blanes, they don't come out well at all, The good news is that we have changed something.. AU
leave the world behind
Rumaan Alam · Salamander · 2021
Dystopias are in fashion, not by chance, and this, that tells us only the gestation of a, perfectly captures this climate of uncertainty and fear of the unknown that we are experiencing with the Covid-19 pandemic. That's why it touches so much. A married couple and their two teenage children rent a secluded Long Island house on Airbnb for the holidays, until the owners of the property stand at their door one night asking for shelter because a blackout has left the New York City where they live in darkness and without electricity.. They are black and wealthy. I specify this because race and class cut across leave the world behind, a novel full of fear, misgivings, nerves and paranoia caused by the innocent ignorance of not knowing what is coming or how to deal with it. AU
Offended generation
Caroline Fourest · Peninsula · 2021
Caroline Fourest gives a good shake to the identity-based left that is putting it on a silver platter to the more reactionary right by forgetting the fight for equality in the name of identity. According to her, the race struggle has replaced the class struggle, thanks to the guidelines set by a hypersensitive generation that understands any confrontation as aggression. We live in a time that sacralizes the victim and not bravery. The youth of today, Fourest says sarcastically, They campaign not to eat Asian food in the university cafeteria and refuse to do yoga because they consider it cultural appropriation. When the problem, states, It is not being inspired by another culture, but to ignore it while trying to share it, as Disney has done more than once and more than twice. The miscegenation, on the contrary, It is the lifeblood of creativity..
We are not educating to endure the offense, rather to censor it, and when everything offends, the only escape is silence. and in silence, my friends, there is no conversation, there is no debate and there is no progress. It's not a question of learning to shut up, sentence the author, but to learn to speak better. She advocates for anti-racism that demands equal treatment in the name of the universal and flatly rejects that which demands particular treatment in the name of identity., after analyzing some ridiculous controversies unleashed in the name of identity and drawing a very sordid panorama of the environment in American universities. Your thesis: The new thought police are establishing a tyranny of offense that is suffocating us all.. AU
Marginalized
Michaela Coel · Today's topics · 2021
Michaela Coel has written an ode to the marginalized, which is also a demand for transparency and a defense of the importance of knowing how to say NO. He did NOT tell the million dollars that Netflix offered him for his series I could destroy you (HBO) because they denied the copyright. According to her, “The only power we have is the power to say no.”. A sus pies Mrs. Coel. In Marginalized realize that, before reaching the position of being able to dare say “no” to the giant of the streaming, grew up on a council estate in London, endured latent and explicit racism, he balanced to be able to climb (no safety net) a defective ladder put there by a defective system that blocks social mobility, and suffered a rape that included a lot of intelligence and mastery in the disturbing I could destroy you. And in a passionate lecture at the Edinburgh International Television Festival in 2018 (you have it on Youtube) that inspires this small manifesto where he defends humor and the appropriation of insults as a weapon against the feeling of alienation of the marginalized that, Like her, They don't want to fit into the regulations. AU
Breakfast in Brooklyn
Mireia Ferrer Álvarez · Che Books · 2021
The first novel by art historian Mireia Ferrer is an autofiction that traces the steps taken by José Segrelles—Vicente Badenes in fiction—in New York in the 1930s.. His life contaminates that of our protagonist, who traveled to the Big Apple during Barack Obama's first presidency to study the artistic and life experience of the Valencian painter and ended up experiencing an equally intense one herself., dura, exhausting and exciting. love and heartbreak, runaway gentrification in Williamsburg, cultural clashes with Anglo-Saxon culture (that appear in a simple hug), the discovery of the fragility of self-esteem (and constant need for affirmation) of the inhabitants of the megalopolis, individualistic and competitive, They are part of Ferrer's portrait of a city that, again!, one good day possesses you. Breakfast in Brooklyn It reveals to us that the fascinating city that is experienced as a tourist hides much darker corners when you dare to integrate into it.. AU
