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We're the Bad Dragon Club and we're bad as can be. We’re rascals and rogues and wrong’uns all three. We’re so full of bad, any badder and we’d burst. We're the Bad Dragon Club and we’re here to do our worst. Scorch, Grub and...

THIS Easter bunny looks a little bit funny. IN FACT, he looks a little bit like . . . A DINOSAUR. He has claws, and sharp teeth and seems pretty scary. Could he REALLY be the Easter bunny?!  Hilarious, anarchic and with hugely fun...

Let's stop at the "greed", ours and that of others. Everyone's. Desire, anxiety, ambition, greed. Lina Meruane exposes us to the material and metaphorical senses of this word through a multitude of insatiable mothers and daughters, incisive sisters, sharp friends and lovers as well...

We can all be each other's demon. We can all be that other's human sacrifice. María Fernanda Ampuero, one of the essential voices of current Latin American literature, masterfully pushes us into a humid, rotten and hostile universe where violence marks the narrative of...

Shurik Korn is a modern Casanova in the guise of a boy from a good Moscow family. Fatherless from the cradle, his education is carried out by his energetic grandmother - the French teacher Yelizaveta lvánovna - and his weak mother, Vera Aleksándrovna, a...

In this book, which is presented as a serialized novel, the great Russian novelist Lyudmila Ulitskaya offers us subtle variations on the feminine lie. Well, according to our author, women's lies would be clearly distinguished from men's lies, and would almost always be devoid...

Milena Busquets writes about love, books, children, beauty and elegance in this dress rehearsal of life. One of her central texts, “Ten Years Less Three Days,” is a continuation of her novel This Too Shall Pass, in which she delves into mourning the death...

An invitation to build a habitable world beyond the walls of our house. Literature committed to the present: an accurate view that, from the intimate, illuminates the social. In first person, he reflects on the growing stratification of life in the cities of Latin...

The right to be oneself has reached the zenith of its social projection: we live in the phase of the historical consummation of the culture of authenticity.

What to do in the face of a global political crisis like the one we are experiencing? Expansive democracy reviews the foundations of current democracy to propose a new, renewed and global paradigm that distances us from political disaster. Against cynicism in politics, and...

Stories of ghosts, of possession, of murderous clothing and jewelry, stories about the transformation of the body or about the cult of a girl who drowned in a water tank, or about the hyenas that can still be heard in a place where a...

Who hasn't repeatedly retraced their steps to check the closure of the gas valve or the front door before leaving on a trip? Review, over and over again, an academic work that is already finished, or create several backup copies of the same document?...

In On the Shortness of Life, Seneca (4 BC – 65 AD) touches on a surprising topic: the feeling of loss of time. We have the false perception that life is short because it is determined by our way of living, full of vices...

During confinement, it has been essential to transfer communication to the intangible means of the web: Zoom, Skype and a thousand other platforms have allowed us to continue getting to know each other, talking, looking at each other's faces, teaching, learning, making music and...

The traditional legal system, as well as realistic and analytical theories of law, do not account for what truly determines the legal inclusion or exclusion of a citizen. Both the "anti" and "alter-globalization" movements warn of this phenomenon. Today more than ever, transnational and...

Our universities have been experiencing a deep crisis for decades. This is debated between its critical function – as an entity that promotes cultural, scientific and rigorous dialogue capable of providing new possibilities – and its adaptive function, which responds effectively to market demands,...

Until recently, we would not have even understood the meaning of these kinds of questions. But today, when the unstoppable globalization that homogenizes everything has sparked as a reaction the vindication of aggrieved indigenisms, no cultural debate is hotter and more delicate than that...

Why do we have so much difficulty changing our lifestyles when no one can deny that our development model has a destructive impact on an ecological and social level, not to mention the intensity of violence inflicted on animals? For Corinne Pelluchon, overcoming this...

What do we mean when we talk about citizenship? Who can be a citizen? What fate awaits those not in the country where they reside? Many times simple questions contain very complex topics. In this book, Irene Ortiz deploys an archaeological investigation into the...

He who asks "what are you laughing at?" doesn't usually wait for a response: he wants someone to stop laughing. Laughter is language and, like words, it can be polite, false, friendly, biting, insulting and discriminating. Although education tries to discipline it and indicate...