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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.

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.

Shakira, Shakira… music and books

  • Concert crowd with hands raised, silhouetted against purple and blue stage lights
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.

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.

Bells, memories of the past

  • Interior courtyard of Casa de las campanas (bell house), a historic building with yellow walls, stone frames, wooden beams, and a central staircase.
Bells have shaped history and the soundscape in Mexico. An analysis of their cultural and symbolic value, and the urgent need to preserve this heritage legacy.

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.