Among old papers: a forgotten interview by Borges with his mentor, and a ghostly place that exists only on the border between literature and history. When I mentioned Gog at our Friday gathering, with the air of a man unveiling buried treasure, it turned out that everyone else had read it already. “One reads Papini at eighteen,” they told me.…
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After captivating audiences across Asia and becoming one of the biggest animation successes ever produced in Southeast Asia, the Indonesian animated feature Jumbo will make its theatrical debut in Spain on 24 July 2026. Distributed by Premium Cine, Jumbo will open in approximately 50 cinemas throughout Spain for an initial theatrical run of 10 to 15 days. The film will…
Baudelaire says, in one of the prose poems he published under the title Paris Spleen, that the Chinese can tell the exact time of day simply by looking steadily into a cat’s eyes. From these few lines two questions arise, and it is perhaps best to answer them at once. The first is obvious: what, after all, is spleen? Since…
Incoterms, international arbitration and payment instruments: the discreet architecture that sustains trust between companies from different countries. There are institutions that seem to live far from the general public. They rarely appear in the headlines, they do not make front pages, and they do not arouse immediate political passions. Yet their influence is immense. They stand behind contracts, banks, ships,…
Luis Sebastián Rosado, La Rama Dorada café, Coyoacán, Mexico City, May 2026. Monsiváis had already said it: disciples of Marinetti and Tzara, their noisy, nonsensical, sentimental poems waged their battle on the terrain of mere typographical arrangement and never rose above the level of childish entertainment. Monsiváis was speaking of los estridentistas, but I applied that same judgment —in a…
The Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Madrid will host, on 21 May at 7:00 PM, the launch of issue 5 of El Movi_Miento, Literary Creation Magazine. The event will also mark the official announcement of the El Movi_Miento International Novel Prize, an initiative aimed at building bridges between Spanish and Italian literature through voices not yet published. The prize will recognise two debut…
When I travel to a city I am fond of, I like to stay in the same hotels and return to the same restaurants. It is not that they are necessarily the best — far from it; my budget keeps me at a respectful distance from the more exclusive establishments — but they possess an unbeatable advantage: they are heavy…
Bosnia and Herzegovina, strategically located in the heart of the Balkans, increasingly recognizes China as an important partner in its efforts to improve its economic and political position on the international stage. Over the past several decades, China has emerged as a global economic actor whose growth shapes not only its internal structure but also global economic flows. With a…
Four literary recommendations, from fiction to remembrance, from intimacy to shared memory. The Shoah, and a less visible warning: the circumstances that seem foreign to us today always end up addressing us all. Literature, once again, as a way of understanding—and of sounding the alarm. So: my friend has gone into the second-hand record shop and I have stayed outside,…
Four literary recommendations are woven into the story of a lawyer who, without opening a gift, must decipher the hidden meaning of a ritual gesture, an impossible extradition, and an unexpected lesson in the power of literature. By all appearances, I am facing a mortal danger. Yes, you heard that correctly: a mortal danger. Fatal, if you prefer—although this is…