By own will
Mathilde Forget · Transit
We start the year with a short novel, but forceful, edited by our friend Sol Salama, that always displays exquisite taste. By own will It is a story about police brutality and institutional violence. About feeling alone, bewildered and lost. An autobiographical novel that we cannot stop reading in these times. ALODIA CLEMENTE (The Red)
The Sorrentines
North Virginia · Secrecy
The Sigilo publishing house reissues The Sorrentines by Virginia Higa, one of its most emblematic titles. The novel recovers the memory of a family that emigrates from Sorrento to Mar del Plata to open a small business. trattoria. A seemingly common story, If it weren't for the fact that what will be one of the most famous pastas in the country is cooked there for the first time.: the sorrentinos. ESTELA SANCHIS (Bangarang)
The great replacement
Albert Pijuan Sixth floor
With a sharp sense of humor, The great replacement reflect on the distance between what we want to be and what we are, identity and doubles, the weight of the family and the strange contemporary idolatries. An incisive novel, ambitious and hilarious by Albert Pijuan. JAIME ORTEGA (Per-r-ucho)
Futuromania
Simon Reynolds · Black Box
Where does the music of today and tomorrow come from?? How do we go from pop and rock to hyperpop and trap? When did drum machines and computers replace guitars and drums?? Fifteen years after Retromania, book with which Simon Reynolds explored pop's obsession with its own past, this compilation of articles arrives, with which the English cultural critic explores the ways in which music continues to reinvent itself and explore new textures, rhythms and sounds. SAINTS LEMOINE (The Bathysphere)
Terminus
Joan Benesiu periscope
The narrative of Joan Benesiu catches. He knows how to circulate complex reflections on the contemporary human condition, individual and collective impasses, through well-crafted stories with characters, arguments and often surprising derivations. Terminus, the last novel, that makes us think about failure, frustrated projects and oblivion - shared experiences -, it moves between Valencia and the heart of Europe. A new achievement that confirms Benesiu as one of the most important storytellers in the Catalan language. GUSTAU MUÑOZ
Politics of unrest
Alicia Valdes · Debate
Why does a working class person who needs public services vote for right-wing parties that seek to dismantle them?? That is to say, Why do some people vote against their own interests?? Using psychoanalysis, Alicia Valdés explains in Politics of unrest that our behavior is not guided solely by reason, elements such as desire come into play, the unconscious, identification, affections and emotions, that are instrumentalized by capitalism within a system that generates unrest, and for whom, they have made us believe, there is no alternative. S.M.
