I read in one sitting on January 1st Caroline Darian’s memoirs (in Spanish translation by Lydia Vázquez) Y dejé de llamarte papa (2025, Et j’ai cessé de t’appeler Papa). Caroline’s actual surname is Pelicot, but she is using a mixture of her brothers’ names (David and Florian) for her penname. In this touching book she […]
El 1 de enero leí de una tacada las memorias de Caroline Darian (traducidas al castellano por Lydia Vázquez) Y dejé de llamarte papa (2025, Et j’ai cessé de t’appeler Papa). El apellido real de Caroline es Pelicot, pero en este emotivo libro utiliza una mezcla de los nombres de sus hermanos (David y Florian) […]
I’m writing today out of stubbornness, because if I let a third blank week go by I fear that I might give up entirely this blog. I’m procrastinating my proper academic writing (an article and a book chapter have been waiting for too long), and I worry that if I also delay writing yet another […]
Hoy escribo un poco por terquedad, porque si dejo pasar una tercera semana en blanco temo que pueda abandonar por completo este blog. Estoy procrastinando mi escritura académica propiamente dicha (hay un artículo y un capítulo de libro que llevan demasiado tiempo esperando), y me preocupa que si retraso la escritura de otra entrada en […]
A week ago, as soon as I returned from the national conference of English Studies, I sent a joint email to five young scholars who had discussed SF in their presentations. I presented myself as the Spanish representative of the Science Fiction Research Association and the author of a recent book on masculinity and SF. […]
Today I’m shamelessly piggybacking, this time using The Atlantic’s wonderful selection of 65 outstanding US picture books for infant and toddler ‘readers’ to fill in this blog entry. The piece is not signed, but you can find for each book a comment by the person who chose it (authors, librarians and other experts). The […]
Hoy pensaba ofrecer un texto específico para esta versión del blog en castellano, pero me doy cuenta de que necesito unos conocimientos sobre el libro ilustrado infantil en castellano que no tengo. Así que procedo a traducir la entrada de la versión en inglés. Básicamente, se trata de una lista de libros ilustrados para […]
I’m reacting much belatedly to an article by George Monbiot, a noted environmentalist and Guardian columnist. The article is called “The fact that humans can only survive on Earth doesn’t bother Trump – and I know why”, and was published on 5 March this year. The subtitle announces that “Vengeful nihilism is a big part […]
Reacciono aquí con gran retraso a un artículo de George Monbiot, un destacado activista defensor del medioambiente y conocido columnista de The Guardian. El artículo se llama (traduzco) “El hecho de que los humanos solo puedan sobrevivir en la Tierra no le preocupa a Trump, y sé por qué”, y se publicó el 5 de […]
This is a report of the ‘Vision and Support Session’, an open discussion held last week, on 30 July, within the Science Fiction Research Association conference, “Trans People are (in) the Future: Queer and Trans Futurity in Science Fiction” (University of Rochester, New York), a conference which lasted until yesterday, August 3rd. The organizer of […]