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An essential anthology of Antonio Machado with selected poems by Antonio Rodríguez Almodóvar, illustrated by Leticia Ruifernández, and with an epilogue by Julio Llamazares. This beautiful and illustrated anthology follows the life path of the poet: Seville, Madrid, Soria, Baeza, Segovia, again Madrid, Valencia,...

Oakley Hall's legendary Warlock revisits and reworks the traditional Western conventions to present a raw, funny, hypnotic, ultimately devastating picture of American unreality. First published in the 1950s, at the height of the McCarthy era, Warlock is not only one of the most original and entertaining...

Maryse Condé takes up the story of her life and invites us to accompany her on the exciting journey that marked her youth: a journey that begins in Paris, with an accidental pregnancy and the abandonment of the man she loves, and that leads...

In 2013, twenty-five-year-old Anna Wiener decides to leave her precarious job as an editorial assistant at a literary agency in New York for the seductive promises of burgeoning tech startups. An adventure that will lead her to move to San Francisco and sign for...

After the emancipatory reform of 1861 in Russia, and after drinking too much with two civil servant colleagues, the protagonist, Ivan Ilich Pralinski, exposes his desire to adopt a philosophy based on kindness and humanitarianism towards people of lower social status. After leaving Ivan...

Anne Sexton breathes new life into seventeen fairy tales by the Grimm Brothers, reinventing them as poems full of contemporary references, feminist ideals and morbid humor. The poet takes these stories out of the realm of the fantastic and brings them into the everyday...

One of the bravest memoirs published in recent years. A story of resistance as bold as it is clarifying, as intense as it is real. A survival guide to dealing with suffering and the paradox of embracing loss in order to reconcile with the...

Starting from a detailed reading of the Chronicle of the Indies that Inca Garcilaso dedicated to Hernando de Soto's expedition through Florida, this splendid historical novel recreates what could have been the last meeting between Garcilaso and one of the survivors of that expedition,...

In this letter-style work, Girauta warns us against the current forms of sentimental and ideological manipulation. Briefly, he explains how the left wing has become cultural hegemony. Understanding it requires an approach to post-Marxism. Specifically, to the linking of apparently independent causes or struggles....

A haunting fable of art, family, and fate from the author of the Outline trilogy… A woman invites a famous artist to use her guesthouse in the remote coastal landscape where she lives with her family. Powerfully drawn to his paintings, she believes his...

In the midst of a terrorist attack on a bookstore reading by Göran Loberg, a comic book artist famous for demeaning drawings of the prophet Mohammed, one of the attackers, a young woman, has a sudden premonition that something is wrong, changing the course...

In this monumental novel, Maaza Mengiste investigates the erased lives of the women who participated in the war of resistance against the fascist Italian invasion that began in 1935 in her native Ethiopia. Through the characters of "The shadow king" –complex and full of...

Walks through the Prado Museum. For its classics and its forgotten ones. For its history, its stories and its nooks and crannies. Following in the footsteps of the classic Three Hours at the Prado Museum by Eugenio d'Ors, Estrella de Diego offers us a...

Written in 1928, this novel tells the true story of the conflict between the inhabitants of the town of Gjøl and a group of fishermen who moved there from the North Sea coast. The newcomers, who practice a very strict form of Christian faith,...

Women, just like men, are also capable of killing, of planning the criminal act for reasons as emotional as revenge, greed or jealousy. The motive is rarely aggression or self-defense: physical inferiority places women at a disadvantage in a situation of direct confrontation, which...

In July 2021, Roberto Calasso, editor, writer, intellectual, man of letters, essential figure of Italian and European culture, passed away. Jorge Herralde, accomplice editor and friend of many years, since the youthful meetings in Frankfurt in the seventies of the last century, pays tribute...

Written in 1920 (five years before "The Great Gatsby") "The IOU" remained an unpublished story until The New Yorker discovered and brought it to light in 2017. Apparently, it was meant to be published in Harper's Bazaar, but Francis Scott Fitzgerald kept it for...

Most forms of meditation ask us to be still and quiet, to take time away from our busy lives and forget about our ever-growing to-do lists. Myung Sung, the peaceful art of Korean mindfulness, does the opposite. Myung Sung is active, dynamic, a connectedness...

A girl discovers that, behind the woman who looks at her sternly from the dark family portrait, lives a red-haired girl, who runs free through the Cantabrian mountains, along with her Danish dog. She decides to draw to find out who that girl and...

Memoirs of a Novelist is one of Virginia Woolf's best stories. A wonderful story about the nature of biography, something that Virginia Woolf would continue to explore throughout her life. The complexity comes from the writer's skillful handling of the layers of fiction within...