© Òscar Julve
The New Yorker weekly magazine is associated with old-style, steady journalism, and long and meticulously documented articles. Barcelona appears in one in twenty of the 4,100 issues published by the magazine since 1925: twice a year on average, although it gets barely ten mentions during Franco’s dictatorship. Some of the most noteworthy articles, when considered together, offer a clear vision of the phases the city has been through, and its relationship with the country, as well as of the sins we have not yet atoned for. And a clear pattern emerges in all the articles: when someone from Barcelona tries to walk with their head held high, New Yorkers look upon them as their peer.
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