Nonfiction Book Reviews
It seems that we are always waiting for someone to shake us hard in consciousness to say: Damn, he may be right! And curiously, the most notorious reason, the most incontestable truth is the one that is manifested to us with the clarity of the obvious. James Nestor has taken it ...
How will they see us in the future? In other words, it is a matter of imagining a teenager from the year 3024, of whatever species he may be, in front of a textbook reading about the humanity that occupied the world during our sigh in the cosmos. Perhaps the teenager will think surprised ...
The full title is "Extraterrestrial: Humanity at the first sign of intelligent life beyond Earth" and it must be read at least twice to assume the significance of such an assertion. After hundreds of novels, movies, psychotropic drugs and top secrets of NASA, it seems that ...
That homicide has no gender is unquestionable. Oswald, the assassin with his book The Catcher in the Rye under his arm, or the York Ripper or even "The Wolf of Moscow" could have reached our days. But yes, there are also women who love the most treacherous crime ...
The crux of the matter would be that each one had the attitude as one who chooses clothes every morning (or the day before in the case of the most foresighted and controlling of their time). But it is precisely a kind of labyrinths and internal twists and turns that lead to ...
Knowing by heart the way to the source of inspiration, Isabel Allende in this work he turns into the existential gibberish of maturity where we all return to what forged our identity. Something that strikes me as very natural and timely, in tune with a recent interview that ...
They come and destroy everything at book fairs. I am referring to the media characters that are animated with different luck in this literature. From Carme Chaparro even Monica Carrillo or Carlos del Amor himself (I refrain from citing other unspeakable cases of the famous, splashing which ...
Murakami may be missing the rice for the Nobel Prize in Literature. So the great Japanese author may be thinking of writing about whatever, about what he likes the most, as is the case with this book. Without thinking about academics who always ...
There are writers for whom what happens in the world has a different cadence, a very different wavelength from whose frequency complementary impressions and perceptions end up reaching us. Julio Llamazares is from that court of narrators who tangentially run through a lyrical realism as soon as they splash us ...
It will be through dialogue that telling life ... Because one thing is that the breams are called upon as the worst interlocutors from the obvious foolishness of their hollow gaze, and another thing is that we meet two proto-men, stick in hand, willing to talk about finiteness ...
It is curious how in the absence of the author on duty, what could have been a disruptive publication, an extravagance in life, ends up being a rarity for mythomaniacs after his death. But also a whole approach to laymen who perhaps never read the writer who not so long ago left the scene ...
New York fascinates even more when you just visit. Because it is one of the few places that not only maintains expectations but even exceeds them. Especially if you can discover it with good friends who live throughout the heart of the city. No, NY never disappoints. So what …