Literatura

Enrique Vila-Matas Dictionary

The richness of the work of the brand-new National Prize for Spanish Letters fills the entire alphabet

11 lfreres recomanats pels critics de Quadern l'October 2026

Novel · les de Maria Citation i Pere Antoni Pons, l'obra magna d'història de les givos Catalans or la nova tradició de 'Carrie', d'Stephen King

Why are 80% of true crime readers women?

Berta Comas Casas analyses the rise of a literary genre that is immersed in horror to understand it and in which women are the trigger of history, but not the main point of view

"The book of disappearance": a beautiful and brave work between Jaffa and Tel Aviv

Written in 2014, the work of Ibtisam Azem, which imagines an Israel from which the Palestinians one day disappear, reminds us of the ethical dimension and political opportunity of literature

"The four spent the day together," by Chris Kraus: a real crime, a sick world

The American writer offers a book where self-fiction and social criticism intertwine with the true story of a young man's murder at the hands of a friend

Mariana Enriquez, writer: "The vampire today eats dates and the witch is with the sérum"

The Argentine writer brings together her ideas and reflections on the horror literature in 'Conversation with the Dark'

That thing so discredited

We'll end up locked in little monochrome chapels, cooking in our dogmas and prejudices.

Poetry, a weapon of mass construction

The poet Gabriel Celaya was a rare avis: an engineer and son of industrialists who wrote verses, advocated for the workers in charge and they loved him.

Alana S. "The great ghost of our country is the Civil War"

The author of 'The bad habit' returns to her obsessions with a gothic and lorquiana novel, 'Cosamala', inspired by the 17 Roses of Guillena, in which a group of women resist phalangist attacks through supernatural powers

A woman's right to be a monster: what Netflix has done with Cathy in 'East of Eden'

The serial version of John Steinbeck's classic introduces a novelty: the great classic villain of history is now a victimized woman. Writers and spectators point out that it was not necessary

'Europeana ': the sublime and, above all, the grotesque of the European 20th century

The book of Patrik Ouředník runs without chronological order the past century from a 'collage' of conflicts, scientific advances, art, inventions and anecdotes that have emerged in the continent

Beautiful husbands, red giants or the dissolution of self: five fundamental works to meet Anne Carson

A review of the literary trajectory of the Canadian Nobel Prize, a particular mix of poetry and essay, where they highlight titles like 'Autobiography of Red' or 'The beauty of the husband'

Change the story with a single sentence

The poets are distinguished by their way of seeing, and Anne Carson's eyes are original: everything revolves with her, the order of things is smashing, the given, the expected

Carson, a poet between two worlds

The 15-year-old meeting with Safo marked the way for an author who has set bridges between classical literature and the contemporary world

"Las leopardas" by Marta Borraz: the fatality and resistance of women to AIDS

From the real history of her aunt, the writer composes a family and generational chronicle that pays tribute to the women who died from the disease between 1981 and 1996.

Cristina Rivera Garza: "In Texas I can be the target of violence at any time"

Mexican writer talks to Bern González Harbour about her latest book 'The Invincible Summer of Liliana' and others who have inspired her

Anne Carson in the abyss

It is worth reminding the whole world: poetry exists and is necessary

Canadian writer Anne Carson wins Nobel Prize in Literature 2026

Who is Anne Carson, the Canadian poet who won the Nobel Prize in Literature 2026 "for her bold and inventive work"

The Swedish Academy awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature to the 76-year-old author.

Anne Carson wins the Nobel Prize in Literature 2026

The Canadian poet has been awarded "her bold and inventive work" which "has created new forms for contemporary literature." "They're all crazy, it's crazy," the surprised author said when she met the winner