Elvira Lindo

Someone should explain to Princess Cristina that her problem is the terrible example set by her conduct

There is one public profession that amateur critics are strangely shy of dissing; treating it with a respect bordering on veneration

Theirs are hands that never open doors, hands that are never befouled with the dirty businesses of their husbands

Abortion being what it is, an intimate and traumatic thing, nobody goes about provoking the rage of church people by boasting of having had one

I am surprised at how we combine a habitual disgruntled attitude to our country, and unbearable homesickness when we're somewhere else

The capital does not demand citizens’ undying allegiance but it does offer storytellers bounteous material

High school girls like myself who were crazy about literature would have gladly given themselves up to any real, live author who happened to walk by

In this country we are really into speculation, which is why we like radio talk shows, where professional talkers speculate about this and that, but never finish a story

Seeing a film at home, on a TV or computer screen, is not the same thing. The big screen is a different experience, especially when the theater is crowded

Why do celebrities lend their support to the same causes?

The New Yorker is a dangerous publication - it robs you of hours of sleep, and of time you might devote to other reading material

The singer’s conviction is just the latest episode in the sleazy Marbella soap opera started by Jesús Gil

There ought to be a dictionary of the clichés you resort to when you have nothing else to say

I never knew the classic ages of living outside of Spain, when messages took months to arrive, and the word "disconnect" had real meaning

Those ignorant of Mediterranean food culture are unaware that it lets you pig out once in a while

Is there not some golden mean between Kentucky Fried Chicken and chewing on raw vegetables?

This new documentary helps you to love Woody, or at least to reconcile those of us who are miffed at his tourist pilgrimage of recent years

Technology has raised to the third power the possibility that a group of people can bring pressure to bear on a single individual

Rajoy, like Romney, argues that marriage can only exist between a man and a woman

The silent ‘Blancanieves’ is an extraordinary version of the Grimm Brothers' tale

The Gregorio Marañón hospital is like one of those science-fiction cities where a single building shelters a whole town

In the harshest of times, some politicians’ cynical perversion of our language is a criminal outrage

The articles of the Nobel laureate Paul Krugman have begun to scare me, though I can see his essential point: countries drowning in debt have no chance of recovery

Dívar's Caribbean weekends would not have bothered people so much, if this endless crisis had not put everyone in such a foul mood.

Spain is not the United States - the idea of justice is not the same. It is fairly common, here, for crooked businessmen to escape jail by returning the money they stole