The extraordinary New York of ordinary people, conspiracies that assault democracy and other books of the week

If there is a character with a mythical aura in the golden age of American journalism, it is Joseph Mitchell.

His book

compiles six major pieces written between 1944 and 1959 that constitute the epitaph of the port of New York and what most interested the reporter: its people, its traditions, its places, its environment.

Like him, the Argentine writer Antonio Di Benedetto was also a journalist throughout almost his entire career.

collects many of the texts he wrote in Madrid, the city where he went into exile between 1978 and 1983.

Throughout 80 pages,

collects the poetic trajectory of Ana Pérez Cañamares, in which the autopsy of family relationships and the denunciation of the reality that surrounds us come together.

The first novel by stage creator and poet Violeta Gil,

talks about emptied Spain, about mourning literature and relational therapy, but at the same time it is a book that goes much further, building a space of intimacy. light and abstract.

In

the Norwegian author Vigdis Hjorth thinks of her mother and, from her maturity, her vulnerability is reconstructed.

All Banksy

, by art critic Caroline Diehl, provides the reader with copious background information on some of the artist's interventions in public spaces around the world;

and

, the posthumous essay by Vicenç Pagès Jordà, delves into the secrets of one of the fundamental families of contemporary mythology.

Finally, in

by Costica Bradatan, she reflects on the thinkers who died to defend their ideals;

and

by Ignacio Ramonet, warns of the dangers of conspiracy thinking through the example of the assault on the US Capitol in 2021.

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