Fluent Families - A guide for raising kids in a bilingual family
Fluent Families is a guide for raising kids in bilingual familes.
How to have an adventure in the 21st Century
Wells Jones is a midern-day adventurer and writer, and he tells us about his passion for travelling.
Mori Yuzan waves and Hikikomori
Hikikomori: Journey from Darkness, by Luke Darracott, features beautiful designs of waves and ripples drawn at the turn of the 20th century by Mori Yuzan.
His devilish art, by Warwick Wise - a glossary
It perhaps sounds trite to say that writing starts with the words, but for me this has always been true in the most literal sense. There are writers I love who are primarily concerned with plot and character development, and I sometimes wish I was one of them; but, for better or worse, it’s not the way my brain works.
How I found myself in Spain
How did this writer find his way to Spain? It took a former Monty Python, a documentary series and a long summer.
Marcel Proust: un detalle
Mario Grande, autor de El libro de los abedules, hace un interesante análisis sobre un pasaje de Proust.
Mario Grande’s Review of Don Bigote
Mario Grande, an acclaimed writer and translator, gives us his review of Don Bigote, a book by Roy Lotz.
A Review of Orhan Pamuk’s Snow
A review of Orhan Pamuk’s enigmatic, allegorical and satirical novel, Snow.
Where There’s a Country, There’s The Way
All roads lead to Santiago de Compostela, but some are less well-known than others. Today, we stumble upon an unusual spot, Einsiedeln.
Goodreads: The Review
Writer Roy Lotz is one of the top reviewers on Goodreads. He talks about his love/hate relationship with the website.
A Guiri Learning Spanish (Part 1)
Learning a new language can is beautiful. But before it is beautiful, it’s painful. Here is the first part of the story.
Conversación con la escritora Keka Dilano
La autora Keka Dilano habla con María sobre su libro Igoli.
El augurio de Dostoyevski
En la literatura rusa, fruto de un país helado durante buena parte del año, está muy presente la comunión con la tierra. Dostoyevski es un buen exponente.
Books, Botellones and Other Stories
A surprising discovery when drinking in a public park next to an Egyptian temple. Culture and other stories were close at hand.
My Madrid, Told via a Bookmark
Coming from the Alhambra in Granada, it has the stars and shapes characteristic of Arabic art on the front, that visually arresting pattern stamped over Toledo, in particular, and other parts of Spain. On the back, a dedication from Catalina, the longtime Spanish partner of my friend from school.
Old Books that have found me
On my bookshelf – between the uniform beauty of the Penguin classics, the pocketbook-sized poetry collections and the hefty tomes of photography – lie six battered books from another continent, another lifetime. Apart from their tattiness, they share another detail: they were all put out by a publishing company called Signet during the 1960s. At the back of these books, a ‘further reading’ section advertises plodding novels that were mediocre then and which are forgotten now, while the modern reader can take a gamble by writing to their postal address, now presumably defunct, to see who replies, if at all.
Mario Grande cuenta un detalle fascinante sobre el turco
Mario Grande, autor de El libro de los abedules, nos explica cómo funciona el turco, una lengua aglutinante.
Mario Grande, the author of El libro de los abedules (The Book of Birch Trees) tells us something fascinating about Turkish, an agglutinative language.
There be dragons
After reading Igoli – our latest publication written by Keka Dilano – we were struck by how much we enjoyed a story about dragons. This inspired us to find out more about their presence in literature through the centuries.