The year of the pandemic
Last year a life-changing pandemic spread around the world. Here, people from all walks of life recount their personal Covid stories
Downright peculiar
Salt Water is the translation of Pla’s Aigua de Mar, published in his Collected Works in 1966, plus 29 pages on an ill-tempered conversation about a shipwreck with Salvador Dalí’s father
Plensa, the art of asking for silence
The Barcelona-born artist is displaying a group of sculptures and drawings at the Senda gallery until February. He says they have a “hyperpositive” message that focus attention on the “vibration” of body and thought
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All doom and gloom
The presenter of El Punt Avui TV’s The Week in Football, Barney Griffiths, reviews how Catalonia’s leading football clubs ended the most unusual of seasons
Between heaven and earth
Cadí-Moixeró is a mountain barrier formed by the Serra del Cadí range on the west side and the Serra del Moixeró on the east. They are connected by the Tancalaporta pass and extend for more than 30...
The dead bee that stings
Juan Marsé, who died aged 87 on July 18, was widely considered Spain’s finest contemporary novelist. His great subject was the defeated Barcelona of his 1940s childhood. “No post-war ever had a better poet,” wrote Manuel Vázquez Montalbán.
Opinion
News from El Punt Avui
Ramon Valls
RHEUMATOLOGIST, REINFECTED BY COVID-19
My space
Catalans abroad
Features
Interview
DAVID BUENO
NEUROSCIENTIST AND AUTHOR OF THE BOOK ‘L’ART DE PERSISTIR: UN VIATGE A LES PROFUNDITATS DEL CERVELL PER APRENDRE A GESTIONAR EL CANVI I LA INCERTESA’ (THE ART OF PERSISTING
Carme Portaceli
New head of the Catalan National Theatre (TNC)
Marta Coca
Director of 080 Barcelona Fashion
Books
Toni Garcia Ramon
CULTURAL JOURNALIST
In full view of the tombs
English Hours is the irregular diary of the two years (1926 to 1928) that the historian Ferran Soldevila spent as a lecturer at Liverpool University
Food & Wine
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Text: CUINA MAGAZINE Photo: Anna García Frigola
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Mar Gutiérrez-Colón
PHD in English Philology (URV) and head of the team developing the new Art of Reading application
The Eye
Horrorland, Cercs 2018
Photo: ACN
