Wednesday, 29 June 2022
Remember me
£Strictly-speaking, madame Bovary’s husband was not a doctor, although M. Homais, the apothecary of Yonville, flatters him as such. No, Charles was a humble officier de santé (health officer). In the...
The contrast of such a heroic city so bowed in submission to the church surprises an American documentalist
The Kindness of Women is an autobiographical fiction based on James G. Ballard's life from when, still a child, he was interned in Lunghua camp in Shanghai, by the Japanese during World War II, through to the 1980s when he finally writes his novel Empire of the Sun about that inferno that Steven Spielberg turned into a film in 1987
J.K. Rowling
If I were to tell you that, according to Jorge Luís Borges, the best prose writer in the English language of all time was Sir Thomas Browne, it would no doubt surprise many, seeing as his name hardly...
A renowned American hispanicist is treated to a guided tour of Sagunt's newly restored Roman Theatre
In the most intense five days of her life to that point, as Catalonia's revolution of July 1936 explodes, a 22-year-old Helen changes from being a visiting journalist to become a committed radical
Jaume Cabré is top among the most anticipated releases for the first part of the year, with Rafel Nadal, Sílvia Soler, Ian McEwan, Jean Echenoz and Yasmina Reza
A motoring voyager incites as much curiosity for her journey as she has herself for the city of Vinaròs
A book reflects on the influence of Hollywood movies in the lifestyle and in the change of attitudes of women in the twenties and thirties
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