SubjectTeenagers and young people
The black hole of men’s domination of women
Najat El Hachmi, who went down in history for winning the Ramon Llull Prize with El patriarca [The Patriarch] in 2008. It was the first time that a Moroccan...
Education as a tool for transformation
Per una educació en llibertat. Barcelona i l’escola. 1908-1979 [For an Education in Freedom. Barcelona and School. 1908-1979] is a collective work that...
Angela Davis. A history of civil disobedience
Angela Davis embodies the revolutionary fascination and the nostalgia for remote struggles. She has an innate ability to translate complex thoughts into slogans for...
Claudi Montañá, the article as a work of art
Claudi Montañá was the most unique voice in music criticism in the seventies. Nobody could combine popular journalism with creative literature in their texts like he...
A special gift
Mum is turning sixty-five and I must give her a special gift. I start feeling the pressure the day my granny calls me from the village to remind me – she’s ninety-...
Couplets on the night bus
When her friends started getting into the habit of splitting taxis to get home, for the first time she thought that she’d have to give up the night bus.
“It is through the heart that the viewer’s mind is turned upside down”
Carme Portaceli
Carme Portaceli is to be the forthcoming director of the Teatre Nacional de Catalunya [TNC, the National Theatre of Catalonia], making her the first woman to run the...
Alessandro Baricco: The virus and ‘The Game’
The first international conversation about the coronavirus is being held virtually, as it couldn’t be done otherwise. Alessandro Baricco explains that the dynamism of...
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