SubjectCulture and leisure
On the gypsy tarmac of La Perona
Esteve Lucerón recovers the last few years of the gypsy Perona, when the neighbourhood had been living amidst conflict and exclusion for quite some time, and does so...
A taxi called excess
In literature, generally speaking, excess isn’t a good thing. Taxi shrieks, mutters, hums Velvet Underground, strings together quotations and metaphors,...
Stories in pictures that cross borders
For some time now, non-fiction not only fills the pages of well-known writers like Capote, Mailer, Carrère or Caparrós, but also the illustrated pages of graphic...
Grey journalism
Fabre is one the journalists who best knows his city. He wrote a splendid doctoral thesis on 1939 Barcelona and played a decisive role in safeguarding the memory of...
Catalonia, soiled
No book had previously managed to describe the extent to which the support for fascism manifested itself visually, both officially and in the popular arena. Nazis...
An inventory of the eccentric Dalinian Barcelona
By default, everyone associates Dalí with Figueres, Madrid (the unavoidable Residencia de Estudiantes cultural centre, where the exceedingly shy Dalí was called “the...
Welcome to the post-photographic era
Joan Fontcuberta
In this day and age, images have become dangerous, even furious, and require an attitude of resistance on the part of intellectuals and artists. For Joan Fontcuberta...
Under the spell of a neighborhood (a poem spelled out in cantos)
The poet Josep Pedrals talks to us about his neighborhood in a poem.
(Translated from the Catalan by Ronald Puppo)
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