1PX/4KM. Photography
Jaime Sebastian Handshake · 2022
PX/4KM It is the result of research on NOAA satellites. Through a homemade antenna and several field trips, Jaime Sebastián captures his signals generating photographs. A journey through radio waves that proposes a visual language of vertical perspectives and kilometer scales that invite us to reflect on our place on earth and the use we make of technologies.. JAIME ORTEGA (Per-r-ucho)
Alejandra Pizarnil. Biography of a myth
Cristina Piña · Lumen · 2022
Alejandra Pizarnik is one of the poets best known to the general public and, in turn, one of the most unknown when it comes to her private life. Mysterious and enigmatic, The quality of her work elevated her to the myth that she is today., incontestable influence of contemporaries and later generations. Cristina Piña takes us into this great artist. ALODIA CLEMENTE (The Red)
The intelligence of flowers
Maurice Maeterlinck · Black Rooster · 2022
The intelligence of flowers It is one of the most beautiful and surprising books about the natural world and the relationship between man and nature.. A text where scientific observation is accompanied by astonishment, and mysticism is anchored in experience. He rebels against that anchorage to climb through the animated world. “And the energy of your fixed idea, that rises from the darkness of its roots to organize and manifest itself in the light of its flower, It is an incomparable spectacle”. LIGHTS ROMERO (Bartleby)
kitchen! O barbarie
Mary Nicholas · Now Books / Peninsula · 2022
With a direct and challenging style, the cook Maria Nicolau puts us to the test and against the ropes while breaking the false myths about what it is to cook and what has become of our diet these days. As the author says “cooking is not obeying instructions” but improvise, make decisions and take risks. cooking is, so, dare to be free.
XAVIER BENAVENT
dear
Empar Moliner · Column · 2022
Empar Moliner is in love with the short literary piece. In fact, she became known as a writer in 1999 with The floor teacher who hated pampering, a collection of stories that was followed by many other stories and two novels. Now it's the turn of dear (Column, Ramon Lull Awards, 2022), a novel where there is a change of rhythm and atmosphere. The story no longer seems so dizzying and crazy, rather, on this occasion we experience the progressive emotional and physiological transformation of a mature woman, the Duran Remedy, that fights age with good doses of sport and reflection, immersed in a constant inner monologue. dear is a novel that explores the ease with which the sweetest life is turned upside down, a story with heartbreak running through its veins, maturity and the loss of sexual fury. LOURDES TOLEDO
The empire of pain
Patrick Radden Keefe · Reservoir Books · 2021
Patrick Radden signs another narrative book about real and very recent events (latest, highly acclaimed, focused on the IRA) which was born as a result of a report written for The New Yorker about the respected and philanthropic Sackler family. Who turns out to be the owner of the company that created OxyContin, a highly addictive opioid painkiller that helped spur prescription drug use in the United States and, eventually, would unleash an epidemic of heroin consumption within the year 2010. Beings with Medici pretensions who bought reputation through donations to museums and universities and deliberately hid their other side., that of the “legal drug cartel” that opted for a flight forward, clinging to the idea that the addict is born, it is not done. And even less because of a medicine approved by the relevant public organizations that, vaya, had made them immensely rich. Gracias, in part, to the aggressive advertising and persuasion campaigns they had launched to extend it to all types of pain and any type of person, children included. Radden, with the rigor of (good) journalist, expertly dissects real data and facts, in addition to masterfully drawing the psychology of the most distinguished members of the family to talk about greed, of the disconnection of the rich with reality, of money that corrupts ideals of youth and how one can end up believing a repeated lie if it discharges one's conscience. S.M.
Has the rebellion turned right??
Pablo Stefanoni Intellectual Key · 2022
If the future appears as a threat, the safest thing seems to defend what there is, and the state in which sustained by fragile democracies and brittle welfare states. That is, according to Pablo Stefanoni, the current position of a left without alternative proposals that has left the way free for the right to disguise itself as revolutionary and anti-system while wielding the flag of political incorrectness. This book explains to us how the ground that the left has lost due to its inability to capitalize on social indignation has been gained by the right.. Very smart in their strategies. Able to defend the LGTBI cause to use it in defense of Western values and against immigration and multiculturalism. Or transforming environmentalism into green patriotism, something that, by the way, the Nazis already did. Very smart. For now, says Stefanoni, The right is knowing how to capitalize on fears of the future better than the left., that must find a way to reconnect with the material demands of the working classes (the precariat) without giving up the emancipatory project of civil rights. Has the rebellion turned right?? It is a book that lucidly reads the positions of the new rights to alert us to phenomena that are today marginal or embryonic., but with significant expansion potential. Don't you understand how a billionaire can have won the elections in the United States by presenting herself as an anti-stablishment that repudiates the elites? Or that openly gay far-right leaders begin to emerge? Stefanoni explains it to you… S.M.
AA.VV. · Peninsula · 2022
Neorancides It is a compendium of reflections by different authors that comes to dismantle that stale and nostalgic idea. (developed by Ana Iris Simón in Feria) that our parents' time was better than ours and we should aspire to return to it. It was a period that kept dissident sexualities in a closet, to racialized people in the second-class car, to the exploited women and the working class participating in the fattening of the bubble of real estate speculation that has made housing inaccessible for a large majority of the population. Wonderful period, nothing.
The plagiarism
Daniel Jimenez Pumpkin Seeds · 2022
The plagiarism It is an ode to simplicity that intertwines the very personal story of the author himself, dealing with the doubts and fears that come with imminent parenthood, and his father's story—which is also his—, musician from the legendary group Los Pequenikes whose idea for a television contest was plagiarized by three directors of the public channel that ended up making a lot of money on a private channel. His father did not see a penny and ended up obsessed with plagiarism that consumed him mentally and financially.. A sentimental family story, but without sentimentality, a book that oozes the love of a son for his father, that love that is often buried in monotony and boredom.
The monocle monster and other beasts
Nuria Pérez Joke & Hill · 2022
Nuria Pérez transfers to the pages of this book her wonderful ability to tell and weave stories demonstrated throughout the four seasons of her podcast Gabinete de Curiosidades. That is The monocle monster, a mixed bag full of stories, news and jokes about classic Hollywood and its incipient black cinema woven together with a very cinematic noir plot crossed by a fatal accident, the mafia and secrets. The despot Fritz Lang parades through these pages; the director of the The hitchhiker Ida Lupino (the only noir directed by a woman); couturier Oleg Cassini, the first to see the benefits of associating his name with the brand, the beautiful actress Gene Tierney, the author of The Maltese FalconDashiel Hammet (film that inaugurated the genre noir and changed the history of cinema forever); and the first director of the FBI John Edgar Hoover, permissive with mafia activities, but tenacious against everything that smacked of communism in the midst of McCarthyism. A book that requires concentration because it throws in many stitches that are explained after the fact to end up fitting all the pieces into a perfect puzzle that pays homage to the noir. S.M.
Eagles
Flo Guerin TwoWhiskers · 2022
Fló Guerin tells us about her teenage escape to the Murcian coastal town of Águilas from her native France. With Federica, his great love, at a time when two women could not talk openly about their relationship. The fear of being discovered hovers over a novel written in small fragments in which there is passion, jealousy, fear and hardship, but also poetry and a lot of love. S.M.
The creative tarot
