Cultura

Iain MacGregor follows the British tradition and narrates the story with the suspense of fiction: “I wrote it almost like a movie, with four key characters driving the action,” he says about Hiroshima Men (Ático de los Libros). “I didn’t want an academic work, but a reading that would captivate you,” he adds in a conversation about the end of the Second World War, about the race to build the atomic bomb and the fateful decision to use it, in which parallels with the contemporary world are intertwined: “There are similarities in the choice of right-wing populists and I am worried about having someone like Trump in power, who has a two-second attention span and with whom you cannot build international relations,” he maintains. However, he does not fear that the President of the United States will press the nuclear button: “It would be reckless,” he points out. “And, fortunately, there are sane people in the military leadership who would not give him the codes,” he concludes.

“We don’t have a penny, we are up to our necks in debt, but very happy to see this dream come true,” say Pep Tosar and Evelyn Arévalo, who have completely renovated the Raval theater, on Sant Antoni Abat street in Barcelona. The venue belongs to the Carme parish, with which a 15-year, renewable rental contract has been formalized.

The architect Luis Pérez de Prada, director of real estate and natural environment of National Heritage, walks the roof of the Royal Palace in an exceptional site visit to explain how the 19 million euros of European funds destined to improve the building that Philip V ordered to be built on the rugged terrain next to the river that had occupied the old alcázar, burned down in 1734, are being spent.

Finally, the day has come. After wanting to sign for so long. After so many times I had been told what Sant Jordi would be like. After so many days in which I had walked in previous editions as a reader… Today I found myself sitting in front of

The bad omens did not come true on “my first Sant Jordi as a signatory”. No passerby appeared with the original manuscript of their hypothetical book for me to take a look at. There were no children touching copies, and if there were, they were welcome. And

Sant Jordi is a large public square, where philosophy should be, in the agora, where Socrates began it, with a hopeful message for people. And that’s why I’m grateful that after having won the Josep Pla award –with Anatomia de

Comics do not take center stage at Sant Jordi, but there are places where they do set the pace. At Arc de Triomf, among the stalls that stretch towards Passeig de Lluís Companys and the beginning of Passeig de Sant Joan, one of those spaces is concentrated where the type of books and the profile of the public draw a different scene within the traditional April 23rd celebration in Barcelona.