Sunday children
Lunatic
Andrea Momoitio KO books · 2022
Andrea Momoitio, journalist and one of the coordinators of the feminist magazine Pikara Magazine, with great delicacy, immerses us in the exciting process of investigating the death of María Isabel Gutiérrez in her literary debut, Lunatic. Next to him, We discover the less friendly side of Bilbao during the Franco regime and the transition, which is just as hard as in the rest of the State, where the freedom to be different was highly punished. ALODIA CLEMENTE (The Red)
Nina Simone's chewing gum
Rice and more
Ximo Carrión shipyard · 2021
Rice and more it is a delicate journey through the world of rice self-centered in the Valencian taste memory is what it does Ximo Carrion in the new culinary publication of Llibres de la Drassana. There aren't just a handful of beautifying recipes, technical years, informative explanations and very interesting digressions about the world of the ubiquitous cereal of our gastronomy. XAVIER BENAVENT
The devil tree
Jerzy Kosinski · bad pass · 2021
Jonathan James Whalen is a wealthy American heir who returns home after a few years of wandering abroad in an escape from his responsibilities., hooked on opium and sex. Thanks to dad's money, Of course. Aware of his gifted privileges and his lack of talent, begins to move uncomfortably in that world of rich people who want to become great. It's lost, buys everything, no one trusts, he doesn't quite fit his role as a millionaire by last name, He needs to cut his ties with his past… In The devil tree Jerzy Kosinski exposes some ugly issues underlying the American dream, like the unequal distribution of wealth, stratospheric military public spending, and the reverential respect that American citizens have for money and those who own it. It is not Kosinski's most acclaimed novel, but it offers a good time of reading with a critical background. S.M.
Another history of art
Michael Angel Cajigal Vera · Plan B · 2021
Michael Angel Cajigal Vera, The Baroque on social networks, shakes the elitism of art history by dismantling myths and prejudices and remembering, by the way, the name of many women who left their mark and important artistic contributions made from outside the Western orbit. You don't have to like Las Meninas, It is not necessary to “understand” a work of art to be able to enjoy it., not all artists are brilliant and tormented beings, and the new is not always worthy of praise, nor does it turn out to be so groundbreaking. These are some of the ideas launched in this Another history of art that offers a pleasant vision of art, fleeing from academic confinement. S.M.
