Jacinto Antón

The Bram Stoker Festival offers intense experiences for the fans of the king of vampires and his creator, as it traces the footprints of both in the Irish capital

In ‘Beyond,’ Walker chronicles the space race between the Soviet Union and the U.S. He masterfully reconstructs the epic flight of Yuri Gagarin, the first human to leave the Earth and point the way to the stars

British historian Edward Shawcross presents a very readable biography of a royal caught up in an ill-fated imperial adventure

Historian Patricia González Gutiérrez, author of ‘Cunnus,’ explains that the concept of consent was alien to Romans

The star of the ‘Black Sails’ pirate series is also the author of the popular ‘Sunder City’ fantasy novels

Historian Paul Andrew Hutton tells the story of 50 years of war, savagery and adventure on the final frontier of the American West

In ‘The Fires of Lust: Sex in the Middle Ages’, the British scholar debunks myths and offers surprising facts about medieval carnal relations

The popular star of ‘The Intouchables’ and double award winner at the recent BCN Film Fest in Barcelona does not consider himself a sex symbol at all

Klaus Esser, who teaches in a Barcelona center, believes that screens can detract more than they can contribute to children’s abilities

Novelist Massimiliano Colombo takes EL PAÍS on a tour of the Tullianum, the infamous underground prison where the warrior chief of Gaul languished for years awaiting execution, and now, the main setting of a magnificent new historical novel

The director of ‘Pulp Fiction’ spoke with EL PAÍS about the gun control debate in the United States and his love of Spanish cinema, among other subjects. He also acknowledged that he has a natural talent to create tension on-screen

Australian Jay Kristoff is the writer behind a monumental novel about the undead that at the same time pays tribute to and subverts the classics of the genre

In a new book by British historian Jerry Toner, a fictionalized Roman aristocrat takes readers on a ‘grand tour’ of the empire, exploring sites and attractions that early tourists once visited themselves, many now lost to time.

Amputated limbs, which according to sources were used to count dead warriors, have been excavated from three pits in a 15th dynasty palace at Avaris

Sex, executions, assassinations and gossip populate the 1,500-plus pages of the historian’s ambitious book

Journalist and author Ben Macintyre unveils the history of the famous fortress and points out that, among the prisoners of war, there was rampant classism, antisemitism, madness, sex, racism and betrayal

New clues and a recent novel have revived interest in Colonel Alexander von Scheele, who died in 1939 when his aircraft smashed into a mountainside

An initiative by British museums to use alternative terms for embalmed bodies is considered unnecessary by most Egyptologists consulted by this newspaper

Marie Vandenbeusch’s exhibition at Barcelona’s CaixaForum delves into the lives of six ancient people

In his book ‘The trails of a tiger’ expeditionist José Luis Rivera chronicles his experiences with the felines and discusses what can be done to protect them