Welcome back, Samuel Beckett
The Irish Nobel Prize winner was a precise portraitist of terrifying years that could return at any moment
State of alarm
Our world is in decline. To a large extent, the tools that made Western dominance possible are growing rusty or eroding at a rapid pace
The gathering storm
Millions of Spaniards are supporting Podemos, unaware of its true intentions
A tribute to a world literature classic
France is commemorating the 100th anniversary of the first volume of Proust’s ‘In Search of Lost Time’ with new editions of the work and unseen letters
A string of pearls
With a lobotomized left and a parasite-preserving right, we seem to have touched bottom
Old friends of the young
Spain’s drug-dealing mafias, nightlife entrepreneurs and their connections in the municipal government make for a lethal cocktail
After the fall
The former Socialist voter may vaguely remember that the party was, at one time, a Spain-wide constitutional party
A time for holding out
Each generation has known a world that is more pure than that of the next