Books January 2019

agenda-urbana-libres-gener-Why do they cryWHY CITIES CRY
Elisa Levi · Today's Topics · 2018
Today's Topics shakes up and down to completely change its line. Among its first novelties we can find this fresh novel, actual, electrifying with Japan and Madrid as backdrops and loneliness as the flag. Elisa Levi gives voice to an entire generation that is lost in its twenties. ALODIA CLEMENTE (The Red)

urban-agenda-free-gener-LearningLEARNING AT PLAY. TECHNOLOGY FOR CRITICAL THINKING
ArsGames Cultural Association · Ed. ArsGames · 2018
An essay that challenges us and calls us to reflect on what the game is., how video games and technologies can be used to create critical individuals, to awaken consciousness, interest and participation instead of creating a balm of spirits or anesthetizing consciences. Quite a weapon of massive construction. ALODIA CLEMENTE (The Red)

free-urban-agenda-generate-reactionsPSYCHOTIC REACTIONS AND CARBURETOR SHIT
Lester Bangs · Books of Culture · 2018
Determined and talented like few others, Julian Viñuales, one of the editors of the now legendary Global Rhythm publishing house, returns to the battlefield with his new proposal, Books of Culture. And he does it with a bang: a collection of reviews, interviews, diatribes and philosophical effervescences of the best music critic in history, Lester Bangs; a book that had been lost for at least three or four decades in the intricacies of the Hispanic publishing bureaucracy. Welcome home, Reading, and congratulations Kultrun, May there be many more books! SANTIAGO LEMOINE (The Bathysphere)

agenda-urbana-libres-gener-Living thingsLIVING THINGS
Munir Hachemi · Peripheral · 2018
Four young Spaniards travel to harvest the grapes in the south of France where they will come face to face with El Terror in its most liquid and wild form.: the everyday. Despite this premise, we are very far from an adventure book. This beautiful and excellent rhizomatic story travels between the memory and the judgment of its young author., Munir Hashemi, delving into fear and despair, faithfully portraying the thoughts of a generation too educated behind a sinister reality. MIREIA PEREZ (The Bathysphere)

urban-diary-free-gener-la-cajaTHE REBELS BOX
VY.AA (cover illustration: Rebel Nipples) · La Caja Books · 2018
A curious edition consisting of a box with a selection of three books with a common theme. Aixa de la Cruz with a feminist perspective through 27 words, approaches female rebellion in The dictionary at war. The essay by Nuria Capdevilla-Argües, The return of modern, takes us into the origins of Spanish feminism and Nadia, Claudia, Raphaëlle, dec. F. Giua and E. Szwarcer, It is the story of three young fighters. JAVIER UNDIANO (Study 64)

urban agenda-books-January-El alma del marTHE SOUL OF THE SEA
Philip Hoare · book attic · 2018
In his third installment about the spell of the sea, Philip Hoare mixes cultural history and narrative again. The soul of the sea draw a fantastic portrait full of whales and seagulls, what, in this case, They share pages with mythical authors of the literary universe. Through his gaze our vision of the sea has been built.. A world that is not as close as it is foreign. JAIME ORTEGA (Per(r)ear)

urban-sita agendaSITA
Kate Millett · Alpha Decay · 2018
Sita is a love diary written in the first person by Kate Millett (central figure of the American feminist movement) about his romantic relationship with a middle-aged woman, ten years older than her. Located on the West Coast, very far from his beloved New York, Millet records all the complications and joys of a love that languishes against the memory of what once was.. S.M.

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