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The Little Prince: the children's book that was never only for children

Illustration of a fair-haired boy in a scarf, seen from behind, sitting on a small asteroid and gazing at a red rose protected by a glass dome, under a starry sky with planets.

A review of The Little Prince, the story by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry that greetings cards have flattened, and which is far stranger and sadder than most readers remember.

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John Banville relaunches The Infinities

A stone Gothic-style manor house covered in green and red ivy, with a slate roof and several chimneys, at the end of a wet gravel drive on a misty autumn evening; to the left, a large tree and a moss-covered stone wall.

John Banville relaunches The Infinities (2009), his first novel after the Booker Prize: a playful, melancholy exploration of mortality, narrated by the god Hermes in a decaying manor house in the Irish countryside.

Myriam BO

Coffee with Javier Marías

Retrato del escritor Javier Marías sentado ante una máquina de escribir, con la mano apoyada en la mejilla y un cigarrillo entre los dedos, frente a una estantería llena de libros.

A review of Aquí me paro, the posthumous collection of more than sixty texts by Javier Marías written between 2001 and 2020, which reads as an intellectual self-portrait of the author of A Heart So White.

Myriam BO

The Tunnel: the confession of a man who reasons everything through

Silueta de un hombre de espaldas asomado a una ventana de piedra que enmarca el mar en calma al atardecer, con un cabo recortándose a la derecha y el sol reflejándose sobre el agua.

A review of The Tunnel, Ernesto Sabato's short novel in which a painter confesses a crime and drags the reader deep into his obsession.

Classic books worth reading

Happy Birthday, Snoopy

Dibujo a lápiz de colores de Charlie Brown, sonriente y sentado en la hierba apoyado en la caseta roja de Snoopy, con Snoopy durmiendo sobre el tejado, bajo un cielo azul con nubes y sol.

Peanuts has already celebrated a 75th birthday. We look back at the 1950 debut of Charlie Brown and Snoopy, their rise to a global phenomenon, the life of Charles M. Schulz and the illustrated book that celebrates the legendary comic strip.

Myriam BO

Pride and Prejudice: the comedy hiding behind the romance

Woman in a Regency-era dress reading a letter beside a stone wall, with a man in a tailcoat watching from a country lane

A review of Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen's novel that, beyond the romance, is a sharp comedy about money, marriage and snap judgements.

Classic books worth reading

Shakira, Shakira… music and books

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Penguin Random House curates La Biblioteca, the literary pavilion at ES LATINA, Shakira's Madrid residency: book selections, a reading club and activities built around One Hundred Years of Solitude.

Myriam BO

Chronicle of a Death Foretold: the murder everyone saw coming

A white shirt hangs over a chair beside a closed blue door, with an envelope, wilted wedding flowers and two knives wrapped in paper.

A review of Chronicle of a Death Foretold, in which García Márquez turns a murder announced in advance into a portrait of an entire town.

Chronicle of a Death Foretold

Classic books worth reading

An open book surrounded by stacks of well-read classic novels on a wooden table in a warm, sunlit reading room.

A selection of approachable, enjoyable classics with gripping stories that need no background knowledge to appreciate.

The Mistresses

Woman sitting beside a rain-covered window, illuminated by the warm glow of a candle.

This book, by Yanette Trujillo Ramírez, gives a voice to women who lived hidden love stories, exploring desire, loss and the search for identity.

Myriam BO

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