SubjectCulture and leisure
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...
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...
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...
By default, everyone associates Dalí with Figueres, Madrid (the unavoidable Residencia de Estudiantes cultural centre, where the exceedingly shy Dalí was called “the...
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...
The poet Josep Pedrals talks to us about his neighborhood in a poem.
(Translated from the Catalan by Ronald Puppo)
During those years I was undocumented. “Not having papers” used to mean (means) lacking facts. But there was nothing to fear in the library.
Historia y leyenda del Barrio Chino (The History and Legends of China Town) (La Campana, 1966), by Paco Villar, is a singular book to which this return to...
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