Crime and Thriller Fiction Roundup: Brazilian Psycho, A Just Death, and More – Book Reviews and Reading Guide

Crime and Thriller Fiction Roundup: Brazilian Psycho, A Just Death, and More – Book Reviews and Reading Guide

Today we look for keys in fiction to understand a complex world without forgetting the literary perspective. We offer readers the analysis of a magnificent thriller about the turbulence in Brazil at the beginning of the century (Brazilian Psycho)another high above the politics in the southern United States (A just death) and the recovery of … Read more

The Rise of Historical Thrillers and the Secret of Their Success: A Genre Explained

The Rise of Historical Thrillers and the Secret of Their Success: A Genre Explained

The last week of the last Madrid Book Fair, already in June, a question began to circulate among readers walking through El Retiro: who was Lorenzo G. Acebedo, the mysterious author of La tavern de Silos? Signed with a pseudonym, the novel, starring Gonzalo de Berceo, was the ideal mix between the noir and historical … Read more

In current affairs

In current affairs

The choice of the DP – or more precisely of the new Deputy Prime Minister, Xavier Bettel – to entrust Claude Meisch with the heavy ministerial responsibilities of Education, Housing and Regional Planning continues to raise concerns. Taina Bofferding, the now leader of the parliamentary opposition, notes, not without irony, that it is strange that … Read more

The Publishing House of Universidad Veracruzana (UV) Seeks Increased Budget for Book Publications

The Publishing House of Universidad Veracruzana (UV) Seeks Increased Budget for Book Publications

Each year, the Publishing House of the Universidad Veracruzana (UV) publishes between 60 and 65 copies, which requires at least an increase in the budget of 3 million pesos, an amount that is expected to be granted in the fiscal year. 2024. The director of the Publishing House, Agustín del Moral Tejeda, pointed out that … Read more

Eva Llamas: “I went from digital marketing to ceramics without looking back. It has given me a freedom that I wouldn’t trade for anything”

COMPILED BY SILVIA NIETO Updated Friday, March 18, 2022 – 08:04 – His brand, Eva’s Sand, is one of the most interesting of today’s Spanish ceramics. But before dedicating herself to it, Eva Llamas was dedicated to digital marketing. And she wasn’t bad at it. Here she tells how her process was to change her … Read more

Women rule the book world

Karina Sainz Borgo Madrid Updated:06/06/2021 04:12h Keep And Sylvia Beach published James Joyce’s ‘Ulysses’ and Natalia Ginzburg helped found Einaudi in 1933 fascist Italy, Spain had a Esther tusquets, Beatriz de Moura, Rosa Regás O Carmen balcells, essential names that modernized the publishing sector in the sixties and seventies of the twentieth century. In a society … Read more

Unpunished environmental crime | News from El Salvador

A few months ago a fire – apparently caused – devastated “La Montañona”, a surviving nature reserve in the north of our country. Days later another fire in Morazán consumed animals, trees and hundreds of hectares of forest. As one chronicler believes, the human species has become a plague against nature. We are facing impunity … Read more

Is the return to classes the main thing?

If you want a performance-demanding back-to-school, you should progressively adapt ways to capture their attention and motivate them to study. It is undeniable that one of the most affected groups throughout the pandemic has been students. Those who have had the necessary means and resources to continue studying have had to adapt to the change … Read more