Top 2021 Spanish Literature Authors and Their Latest Works

Top 2021 Spanish Literature Authors and Their Latest Works

I asked the director of APRIL, Álex Sàlmon, to give me the proper names of the authors that I have interviewed recently in the youngest of the Spanish literary supplements. He gave me the list, and finally added, generously and between interjections: “Good list!!!”. I felt, therefore, inclined to recover names, titles, references of each … Read more

The American Dream in Turbulent Times: A Review of Seth Greenland’s American Plan

The American Dream in Turbulent Times: A Review of Seth Greenland’s American Plan

American plan de Seth Greenland Translated from English (United States) by Adélaïde Pralon Editions Liana Levi, 320 p., €22 New York, late 1970s. The city is in turmoil and in disrepair. Municipal finances are on the verge of bankruptcy. Entire neighborhoods are falling into ruin, blighted by drugs and prostitution. Real estate prices are plummeting. … Read more

Underlying Logic: Exploring Perspectives, Injection Brainwashing, and Probabilistic Thinking

Underlying Logic: Exploring Perspectives, Injection Brainwashing, and Probabilistic Thinking

🕮This is the script of the second part of the Podcast Storytelling Channel[TOGETHER Read Together]EP81 “Underlying Logic”. It is recommended to use it with audio files for better effect: 👉ApplePodcast:‎TOGETHER Read together: EP81. Why haven’t we received a karma yet? Underlying Logic Part 2 – Lewis on Apple Podcasts 👉Spotify:EP81. Why haven’t we received a … Read more

Exploring Bullying and the Meaning of Suffering in Mieko Kawakami’s Novel, Heaven

Exploring Bullying and the Meaning of Suffering in Mieko Kawakami’s Novel, Heaven

Forty-six-year-old writer Mieko Kawakami became famous for her novel Breasts and Eggs. Even Haruki Murakami, the living legend of Japanese literature, praised her for him. “I will never forget the feeling of utter amazement when I first read the novel,” he noted at the time. In her homeland, Kawakami won the most important literary awards, … Read more

Sweet Chaos: A Vibrant Tale of New York’s Eclectic Residents

Sweet Chaos: A Vibrant Tale of New York’s Eclectic Residents

Title: “Sweet Chaos: Meryem Alaoui’s Novel Explores the Vibrant Lives of New York’s Diverse Residents” In her latest novel, “Sweet Chaos,” Meryem Alaoui takes readers on a captivating journey through the lives of the residents of a typical New York building in the heart of Brooklyn. Formerly a poor neighborhood, the area has now become … Read more

“Rastignac’s Fall from Grace: A Retelling of ‘The Phantom Year'” by Didier Tronchet

The Phantom Year by Didier Tronchet Dupuis, coll. “Free area”, 192 p., €27 We had left him on a lost island, now we find him at the top of Paris. Neither quite the same, nor quite another. The creator of Jean-Claude Tergal, an award-winning funny series about his alter ego, a sentimental loser in a … Read more

“Assemblage” by Natasha Brown: surrendering

Assemblage de Natasha Brown Translated from English by Jakuta Alikavazovic Grasset, 160 p., 17 € For an average Briton, in other words a white man, her identity seems simple to describe: she is a black woman, attractive, from the training of excellence of “Oxbridge”, salaried employee with brilliant success; the portrait is completed by a … Read more

Nostalgia is no longer what it used to be

Nostalgia. Story of a deadly emotion by Thomas Dodman Threshold, 314 p., € 23.50 Open Littré’s dictionary, published in 1872, to the word nostalgia. Surprised, read: Term of medicine. Thomas Dodman, a Franco-British historian who teaches at Columbia, explains it to us: Littré was right, the nostalgia that moves us today through sepia-colored photos or … Read more

Manuel Chaves Nogales’ Biography of Bullfighters Juan Belmonte

SPania and bullfighting: is there a worse stereotype? One approaches the book “Juan Belmonte – Stieröter”, originally published in 1935, with a certain skepticism, especially since the legendary fame of the protagonist, the torero (1892 to 1962) from Seville and from a poor background, is just as historically remote today as it is the golden … Read more

knowledge in the face of the mystery of the world

Science, the test of God? by Francois Euve Salvator, 186 p., 18 € Without saying so explicitly, this little book responds to Michel-Yves Bolloré and Olivier Bonnassies who, with their recent work God, science, evidence (Guy Trédaniel, 2021, 577 p., €24), have caused trouble for some, false hopes for others. The authors in question seek … Read more