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True crime fever has caught on in Catalonia in recent years through such unorthodox products as Carles Porta’s Crims programme, Clàudia Pujol’s books and the Psycholand...
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It often seems that Barcelona’s urban landscape is the product of the plan developed for the 1992 Olympic Games. Although this is somewhat true, the reality is that the city’s...
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The changes made to the names of the city’s streets and squares are a reflection of each municipal mandate. By action or omission, the names of streets and squares speaks volumes about...
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Javier Pérez Andújar’s latest novel, El año del Búfalo [The Year of the Buffalo], is an astronomical novel because it is the work of someone who has spent years taking...
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The extraordinary work and cultural life of Ricard Giralt Miracle and Enric Tormo take centre stage in two books that recognise their contributions as pioneers in the graphic...
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La màscara no menteix mai [The Mask Never Lies], the exhibition at the CCCB curated by Servando Rocha and Jordi Costa, displays an exhaustive inventory of the...
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The book Un trajecte pels feminismes fílmics [A journey through feminisms in film], by Marta Selva and Anna Solà, marks the 30th anniversary of the Barcelona...
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Mamut completes the trilogy of novels written by Eva Baltasar, following Permagel (Club Editor, 2018, published in English as Permafrost by And Other Stories, 2021) and Boulder...
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