Being ‘American’
Today, the United States is a fascist country; there’s no other way to describe it. But there are Americans who resist and create havens of beauty and culture
How New York resisted the rise of fascism in the 1930s... and how it’s standing up to Trump today
‘Gotham at War,’ a new essay by Mike Wallace, takes on special significance ahead of the mayoral election that could be won by Zohran Mamdani — a Democrat, a Muslim, and a socialist
The American cultural boom a century on: Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Dos Passos and Louis Armstrong
1925 was a remarkable year for the American novel as great titles renewed the art of storytelling and had the power to influence upcoming writers for decades to come
The election will be televised: 70 years of TV ads for US voters
Antoni Muntadas and Marshall Reese’s video art project shows how, from Eisenhower to Harris vs. Trump, presidential races run on propaganda
Luis Alberto Urrea, novelist and essayist: ‘Trump made the border a theater of horrors’
The Mexican-American author tells EL PAÍS that, in the United States, there’s an openly racist attitude against Spanish, his native language. In his latest novel, he has opted to depart from his usual subject matter — the U.S.-Mexico border — to explore the most intimate elements of his mother’s life
In the ‘morgue’ of ‘The New York Times’
The genre can be a literary gem when it is written with the dedication seen at the U.S. newspaper, which prepares advance obituaries
New York turns 400-years-old in silence and with a Latin accent
The biggest city in the United States is, effectively, a pan-Latin city, with deep roots in the Hispanic world. A good part of New York’s identity is based on the strength of a language whose presence is constantly being renewed
In the midst of his battle against cancer, Paul Auster publishes a novel of enormous human and literary value
‘Baumgartner’ reads like a distilled mix of everything that the author of ‘New York Trilogy’ has ever written
Cormac McCarthy, the end of an era in American literature
The author of ‘Blood Meridian’ was one of the last remaining representatives of an extraordinary generation of literary creators born in the 1930s that included Sylvia Plath, Susan Sontag, Joan Didion and Philip Roth
Cormac McCarthy, the great novelist of the darkest America, has died
The author of ‘The Road’, who died Tuesday at the age of 89, was one of the most outstanding writers of his generation
The inventor of capitalist realism is an Argentine who writes in English
Hernán Díaz followed up his acclaimed first novel, ‘In the Distance,’ with ‘Trust,’ an ambitious and fragmented look at the machinery that moves Wall Street
Colleen Hoover: The world’s bestselling author hails from a ranch in Texas
The 42-year-old writer is ruling the bestseller lists, ahead of J.K. Rowling, John Grisham and Stephen King. She has sold 20 million books, in which she blends fiction with traumas from her own life
Salman Rushdie: ‘I would rather not have to live under threat, but I would absolutely not change a single thing’
The esteemed writer, who was attacked on stage six months ago, talks to EL PAÍS about his recovery, writing influences and new novel, ‘Victory City’
Charles Simic, one of the most innovative voices in American poetry, dies at 84
The Pulitzer-winning author of ‘The World Doesn’t End’ and Poet Laureate of the United States passed away in Dover, New Hampshire
American novelist Cormac McCarthy’s long-awaited return
‘The Passenger’ and its sequel ‘Stella Maris’ are brilliant and sometimes exasperating explorations of incest, mental illness, science and philosophy by the Pulitzer-winning author of ‘The Road’
Lucy Sante: ‘I tried to be a man, but the truth is that I was never very good at it’
The writer, artist and great chronicler of the New York underground felt from childhood that her gender did not match the one on her birth certificate. Last year, a face modification app brought her a revelation
The danger of speaking Spanish in the United States
The use of this language, spoken by 40 million people, continues to grow. It is doubtful that President Trump will manage to reverse this trend
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