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Amitav Ghosh, László Krasznahorkai, Cristina Rivera Garza, and Enrique Vila-Matas are the bookmakers’ favorites
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The filmmaker makes his debut as novelist at 89 years of age with ‘What’s With Baum?’
Glenn Lowry, director of the MoMA: ‘I am unabashedly clear that public institutions serve the public’
For 30 years, he has determined the destiny of one of the world’s most important museums — now, he’s making his last reflections before descending from its top position
Gilbert Cruz, cultural journalist: ‘You can question Philip Roth’s misogyny and still understand there is value in reading the book’
The head of the ‘The New York Times’ literary supplement visited Spain for the 2025 Madrid Book Fair
The Spanish literature of New York City
The 2025 Madrid Book Fair is dedicated to the American city. Juan Ramón Jiménez and Federico García Lorca made it a key muse of Spanish poetry in the 20th century. Since then, successive generations of writers have continued to nourish New York’s inexhaustible narrative
David Rieff: ‘It’s one thing to have a bad president and another to have a crazy one’
The editor, essayist and political analyst argues that voting in the election will show a strong division between the sexes, with women coming out to support Kamala Harris
Psychoanalysis and free sex: The Sullivanians, a commune that mutated into a cult on New York’s Upper West Side
A book and a documentary reconstruct the history of an organization set up by a couple of therapists in the late 1950s. The painter Jackson Pollock and the novelist Richard Price were linked to the group, which dissolved in 1991 and once had 400 members
Salman Rushdie: ‘The ‘Guernica’ speaks of our time, the bombs are still falling’
EL PAÍS went on a stroll through Madrid’s Prado and Reina Sofía museums in the company of the author, who is visiting Spain to present ‘Knife’, his account of the attack he suffered in 2022
Barbara Kingsolver, writer: ‘You buy a book to take a break, not to be taught a lesson’
In ‘Demon Copperhead’ the American author builds a saga about the impoverished Appalachian region and the opioid crisis. Inspired by Charles Dickens, the book won the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
Five essential novels by Paul Auster
New York City was a fundamental character in the work of the American writer, whose plots played with the idea of chance and spoke of love and friendship
Mariana Enríquez, writer: ‘A woman’s body has very particular fears’
The Argentine author returns to the disturbing world of ghosts and paranormal phenomena with a new collection of stories
Kathryn Scanlan’s great literary derby
In ‘Kick the Latch,’ the Iowa author reconstructs a hard, wild and tender life among horses
Ethan Hawke: ‘Actors’ lives are aired out in the press, but there are few novels that talk about them’
The divorce of two stars and a stage production of Shakespeare on Broadway are the focus of ‘A Bright Ray of Darkness,’ a novel written by the actor and director
An academic has unearthed seven stories and five poems that he attributes to Louisa May Alcott
New research claims that the author of ‘Little Women’ published several works under the pseudonym E. H. Gould
Trapped in the clichés of Spain
The crisis in Catalonia has demonstrated that the Iberian stereotypes persist in foreign media outlets
Virginia Barber, a Spaniard in New York’s grimmest prison
The 39-year-old forensic psychologist from Lanzarote is about to become the mental health director at what is considered one of the worst jails in the US
Buenos Aires and Borges’ fervor
An illustrated volume of the Argentinean author’s first book comes to light
A Lorca spring in the Big Apple
The city is celebrating his stay and his influence with around 20 activities and two exhibitions
Cuban blogger Yoani Sánchez takes the US stage
Dissident receives Cabot prize she was unable to accept four years ago
Jazzing up the Galician pipes
NY-based Cristina Pato has just released her first album with a US jazz label
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