Books on current topics
The new aphorisms grow like mushrooms on Twitter, in the humid heat of the fiery haters; or from the studied notes of the most enlightened of the place. On the other side of this social network we find honorable digital visitors like Arturo Pérez Reverte. Perhaps at times out of place, ...
In addition to his fictional narrative side in which Alessandro Baricco explores the possibilities of literature almost more than he recounts, on more than one occasion this Italian author, as a good philosopher, faces the task of the essay, of remote critical review of the approaches of ...
Sometimes the dissemination intention is shipwrecked. It may be due to a masochistic taste for deaf ears to what the receiver of any message dislikes. Or perhaps it is something of that strange and delusional interested bias that turns the world into what our terminals transmit to us knowing our ...
Recently I was listening to an interview with Don Arturo Pérez Reverte addressing the issue of nationalities, the feeling of belonging, flags and those who cover themselves with them. The sense of being Spanish is today intoxicated by perceptions, ideologies, complexes and a long shadow of suspicion on ...
There is something extremely sinister in our world turned into a Fake World constantly bombarded by Fake News: complacency. Let me explain ... That fake news has come to stay has a lot of information segmentation, of that algorithmic search of what happens in a world passed by ...
And there are already two characters capable of flying over the cuckoo's nest. In the first place, Randle Patrick McMurphy, to whom we all put the face of a histrionic Jack Nicholson in his insane interpretation of the protagonist of this groundbreaking story about psychiatric hospitals and their inhabitants. In second place …
After the shocking story of Antonio Pampliega told in his book In the dark, with his 300 days of captivity in Syria, I now come to this book by another journalist Mikel Ayestarán, specialized in Middle East and in charge of transferring us in many occasions the sociopolitical ins and outs from countries like ...
If I was recently talking about the case of the Austrian swindler Filek, about whose life and work Ignacio Martínez de Pisón has written a book (highlighting the chapter on he deceived Franco), I am now preparing to introduce you to the American version of this European rogue. Deep down, Clark may ...
From his previous book after leaving the White House: My Father's Dreams, many expected from Barack Obama the expiatory account of his days as president. Who else who less, every leader has taken advantage of the release from the position of power to relate some misunderstood decisions. Or motivations that in ...
Bringing fresh air to one of the world's oldest institutions is no easy task. In Jorge Mario Bergoglio, Pope Francis soon discovered a transforming will. In fact, some say that his choice was one of the most controversial. American, Spanish-speaking ... The roots of ...
Life is ultimately math… How likely are you to meet the person you need among billions of people? That is the final answer that the algorithm seeks, a kind of synthesis between the strict calculation, the probability of the statistics and the need ...
You probably have the right to consult the popular will in the Catalan case. But there are some nuances that lead this supposed right down perverse paths. Namely: If the government that requests the right to consultation goes out under the banner of Yes to independence ...