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Categoría: Op-Eds
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The other pandemic
At every turn, Spanish politics are becoming more toxic than the virus that’s caused a pandemic. Day after day, ever since the beginning of this bleak September, the stream of news […]
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La Repubblica: Giù le mani de Greta
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In Francoland
It happened to me on the last night of September in Heidelberg, but it has also happened quite frequently in other cities in Europe and the United States, and even […]
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Lessons of winter
A student from Lima tells me that the chief lesson New York has taught him is the change of seasons. “In Lima the weather is always more or less the […]
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Unacceptable clarity
To canonize Camus on the obvious occasion of his centenary is to attempt what his worst enemies could not do: domesticate him, or bury him in irrelevance. The causes he […]
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Indonesian night
In a depraved parallel universe, veterans of the SS or of the death squads in Argentina grow old amid the admiration and respect of their neighbors, and appear on TV […]
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Bicycle lives and death
The bicycle is a literary machine. No sooner was it invented than it began to show up in novels. In Valle-Inclan’s Misericordia, which was published in 1887, one character rents a […]
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Parallel lives
I was reading Dionisio Ridruejo’s Russian notebooks, when by chance I found another book that is almost its exact reverse. In 1941, when Ridruejo enlisted in the Blue Division, Ferran […]
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Big industry
The other day an article on Iceland brought home to me the curious fact that in Spain, with its rich cultural heritage, there is a very general contempt, public and […]
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On the trail of Juan Gris
In the grey December of Madrid, about the hottest color is the red dress of a woman painted by Juan Gris. Gris went off to Paris in 1906, at the […]