Nine months ago I published the post “Depression and Anxiety: The Main Academic Keywords Today” and I return today to the topic out of a need to process a situation that is beginning to make me quite angry. I am going through a personal complicated period, with immediate material causes that are slowly sorting […]
Hace nueve meses publiqué el post “Depresión y ansiedad: las principales palabras clave en la universidad” y hoy vuelvo al tema por la necesidad de procesar una situación que empieza a enfadarme bastante. Estoy pasando por un período personal complicado, con causas materiales inmediatas que se están resolviendo lentamente (no problemas mentales per se), […]
I am finally breaking a silence of four weeks after being snowed under a prodigious mountain of proofreading and being also busy writing indexes, aspects of writing we never discuss. I’m breaking that bad habit here. I used my time off the classroom in 2022 to work on four volumes to be published in […]
This post is inspired by the article “Seventy-five years of richly illustrated literary classics – in pictures”, which celebrates the work of The Folio Society. This is a British independent publisher, established in 1947, which has so far published 2400 beautifully designed editions for book lovers. Not knowing anything about them, I was astonished not […]
Esta entrada post está inspirada por en el artículo “Seventy-five years of richly illustrated literary classics – in pictures”, que celebra el trabajo de The Folio Society. Se trata de una editorial independiente británica, establecida en 1947, que hasta ahora ha publicado 2400 ediciones bellamente diseñadas pensando en los amantes de los libros, una categoría […]
On September 14, the Spanish Ministry of Social Rights and Agenda 2030 led by Ione Belarra, Secretary General of left-wing party Podemos, launched the campaign #BastaDeDistopías [#StopDystopias] to encourage the debate around the current general discouragement, especially among the young. The main piece is a 1-minute video in which various characters are seen in what […]
El pasado 14 de septiembre el Ministerio de Derechos Sociales y Agenda 2030 que dirige Ione Belarra, Secretaria General de Podemos, lanzó la campaña #BastaDeDistopías para animar el debate en torno al desaliento general, sobre todo entre los jóvenes. La pieza principal es un video de 1 minuto en el que se ve a diversos […]
The article by Héctor García Barnés published in El Confidencial, “There are people in Spain who read 80, 150 or 300 books a year, and it is not as difficult as it sounds”, draws powerful attention both for the cases it presents of constant readers and for the rather negative comments they receive. According to […]
El artículo de Héctor García Barnés publicado en El Confidencial, “Hay gente en España que lee 80, 150 o 300 libros al año, y no es tan difícil como suena”, llama poderosamente la atención tanto por los casos que presenta de grandes lectores como por los comentarios más bien negativos que éstos reciben en los […]
It’s evening, after dinner, time to relax and choose a film to watch from whatever platform you subscribe. This means employing about two hours on consuming a story, leaving aside the fifteen minutes (or more) it may take to select a minimally enticing movie, unless you have preselected and placed some on your list. If […]