
Borja de Riquer
editor OF the book ’The memory of the Catalans’
“In a nation without a state, symbols are also constructed against it”
Borja de Riquer (Barcelona, 1945) is Professor Emeritus at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB), a specialist in the history of political Catalanism and Francoism; and, above all, teacher, a vocation...

“Kennedy: I am a Berliner”
A strong wave of anti-Europeanism is growing on the other side of the Atlantic. And it is not a harmless temporary fashion. It is a serious attempt by the current American administration to split, neutralise...

A tour of some of Catalonia’s food treasures
Catalonia as theWorld Region of Gastronomy 2025 promotes cuisine as a form of cultural expression and offers an array of fairs, exhibitions and experiences linking food to a unique landscape

Letters to Monsieur Printemps
The unpublished memoirs of Tom Sharpe
When did you have your first sexual experience?
This instalment of the comic writer’s memoirs is the first half a letter from February 2010

In Search of Humanity
Citizens or Bystanders
’We will transmit this City not only not less, but greater and more beautiful than it was transmitted to us’ Ephebic Oath, 5th-4th century BCE The quotation above is part of an oath taken by eighteen-year-old...
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Mireia Vilanova. marcela topor. mtopor@cataloniatoday.cat
is a Barcelona-born, LA-based producer working in film, TV and digital media. She has led numerous projects in the US and Europe that have screened at top-tier festivals such as Tribeca, the Santa Barbara International Film Festival, Outfest and Palms Springs ShortFest, among others. She is currently in pre-production on her debut feature, I Live Here Now, directed by Julie Pacino
