From the humid mists of Baztán to Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans. Small or large storms that seem to bring, among their black clouds, another type of electrical magnetism of evil. The rain is sensed in its dead calm, the great storms are rising like winds that first whisper...
In this matter of hotels as refuges from reality from the deepest estrangement from the comfortable that never makes a home, I always remember Oscar Sipán's guide to invented hotels. Hotel rooms where characters who hardly have time to occupy that space and whose ghosts …
More than 20 years have passed since the first disillusioned Mario Conde in the world that was presented to us in «Past Perfect». This is the good thing about paper heroes, they can always rise from their ashes to the delight of those of us who let ourselves be carried away by their paths more or less...
The most established facts in the popular imagination hang from the thread of the official chronicles. History shapes national livelihoods and legends; all pasted under the umbrella of the patriotic sense of the day. And yet we can all intuit that there will be more or less certain things. Because the epic is always...
The moment when life forks. The dilemmas imposed by simple chance, by destiny or by a God enchanted to repeat the scene of Abraham with that of his son Isaac, only with unpredictable variations of the ending. The point is that it seems as if the existence...
Don Juan José Benítez knows how to throw the pisto like nobody else. His Trojan Horse series is worthy of superior intelligence in substance, form, and marketing. Fact and fiction make up an inseparable chain that moves with each installment like the DNA dance marking the fate of the turn. Y …
The moment of the final verdict arrives for Carmen Mola. Will she follow the path of success or will her followers abandon her once her three-headedness is already discovered? Or…, on the contrary, will all the noise created by the origin or not of the three authors behind the pseudonym in…
Ireland entrusts its summer to a Gulf Stream capable of reaching those British latitudes, like a strange marine spectrum, with much more pleasant temperatures than any other region in the area. But make no mistake, that Irish summer also has its dark side among the inexhaustible greenery of …
There comes a time when the writer's creativity is unleashed. to the good of Lorenzo Silva gives him the opportunity to present novelties of historical fiction, essays, crime novels and other memorable collaborative works such as his latest four-handed novels with Noemi Trujillo. But he never hurts to recover...
Bringing us closer to spontaneous combustion with a heat made heat wave before time, this "Everything burns" by Juan Gómez-Jurado comes to suffocate our brains even more with one of its multi-sided plots. Because what this author does is to confer shared protagonism to his plots. Nothing better for this...
Death is denatured when it is not the proper exit from the scene. Because leaving this world erases all traces of memory. What is never completely natural is the death of that loved one who was always there, even less in a complete tragedy. The most unexpected losses...
A robbery within a robbery. In other words, I do not want to say that Jean Hanff Korelitz has stolen from Joel Dicker part of his narrative essence from that Harry Quebert who precisely also stole our hearts. But the thematic coincidence has that nice point of coincidence between reality...