Nonfiction Book Reviews
That it is imperative to face another way of inhabiting this planet, there is no doubt. Our passage through the world is marked by landmarks as emblematic as they are insubstantial if we observe the equivalence of our time with the cosmos. So inconsequential and so capable of changing everything. The Earth will survive us and we will be ...
The Wild West, as a synecdoche of the American homeland in formation, extended its imaginary, its idiosyncrasy and its forms to an entire gigantic country of disparate sensitivities and beliefs regarding almost everything. Never could something so heterogeneous be suspected that it would be formed in a country like it is today ...
A song by Def with Dos rhetorically wondered who had translated Lenin's speeches. There must have been some culprit in that disaster that was the implantation of communism. And it is that yes, beyond the musical parody something went wrong, completely wrong. First of all because I know ...
Our fears are also somatized, no doubt. Really everything is somatized, the good and the bad. And the road is an endless loop back and forth. Because of emotion we make internal physical sensation. And from that uncomfortable feeling that we generate ourselves, from fear, we can get to ...
Experience shows that providence is expected in the darkest times in the world. Like the rain of great storms, just before the lightning strikes. Nothing better than a good populism capable of presenting itself as a champion of the best future so that this strange faith ends ...
The hackneyed phrase "I have to write a book" points to a vision of what has been lived as a unique experience. Something about which the mere testimony put black on white would make the very gods of Olympus tremble. Then there is that other phrase of «Any day I start to write ...
We all wanted that gang of hipsters and other geeks from Silicon Valley. A group of father's children who announced a new world economic system for the benefit of all and oriented to the welfare society. A dawn of the new technological world with its glorious benefits ...
The very use of the term "game" clearly manifests the vision of our world as something not entirely real. Because everything is a game, we are temporary inhabitants of this place and therefore we cannot take very seriously almost anything. Only, unfortunately, the etymology of ...
Giving transcendence to genres stigmatized by the popular or even the merely commercial is one of those praiseworthy causes to which authors like Mariana Enríquez regularly indulge. He does it even in a work like this, which began his good years ago and finished off "at times of death" until ...
Beatriz Montañez listened to that inner voice that sometimes goes from whispering to shouting amid the noise that comes from outside. And notice that here one prejudged that presenter of «El Intermedio» considering that her new professional bet would not have turned out very well when she had disappeared ...
There is more than something dangerous about today's revolutions. Almost all are imported with the legitimacy of the conviction of the one who vindicates against the one who is silent, although even the silence comes from the silence, from the annihilation of the opposite. Thus one ends up, immersed in the mass, convinced by the arousal ...
The news has not been flattering for a long time, not even in the sports section (especially for a Real Zaragoza fan). And, jokes aside, the issue of globalization, climate change denied by Rajoy's scientific cousin, and this happily mutating coronavirus ...