Faceless women… or rather with their faces hidden by hair, veiled by dresses, or even covered by a still life. The Polish painter Ewa Juszkiewicz presents about twenty unsettling portraits at the Thyssen-Bornemisza National Museum, from this May 26th until next September 6th, that will not leave visitors indifferent.
The Iranian Foreign Minister, Abbas Araqchi, held a telephone conversation this Sunday with his Spanish counterpart, José Manuel Albares, with whom he discussed the details of the ongoing negotiation to end the war with the United States.
That one of the most anticipated literary debuts of the year features a tradwife as the protagonist is not something that should be surprising. For those unfamiliar with the term, this anglicism is an abbreviation of traditional wife, or in other words, traditional housewife, and this is how Natalie Heller Mills, a character in the novel Yesteryear (AdN) by Caro Claire Burke, who has just arrived in bookstores stirring much excitement among readers, refers to herself. It is no wonder, as actress Anne Hathaway, who these days can be seen on the big screen starring in The Devil Wears Prada 2, has purchased the film rights to turn the novel into a movie, playing the role of Natalie herself. She will thus go from being a promising girlboss ready to succeed at Runway magazine, directed by Miranda Priestly (Meryl Streep), to quite the opposite.
The United States Army liberated the Mauthausen concentration and extermination camp 81 years ago today, where the Nazis murdered about 90,000 people through forced labor in quarries, starvation, torture, gas chambers, or experiments with direct phenol injections into the heart.
If there is something that writers habitually do, more or less consciously, it is to be aware of what is happening around them. It doesn’t matter if they write historical or contemporary fiction: what they see and experience in the present ends up permeating their texts. That is why it is not surprising that in recent times several books have been published in which aesthetic pressure and terms like botox, skincare, preventive aging, or wellness permeate their pages.
Confetti rain and a huge stage to welcome the European champions. And they, the protagonists, the Barça players parading with sunglasses on. Many were hydrating with water bottles in their hands. Others, like Claudia Pina and Ona Batlle, came out with beer. Mapi León, with the number 4 jersey – like the four Champions League titles won -, was one of the most applauded of the afternoon. It was her last celebration since, like Ona Batlle, she will head to the Premier League. And the captains Irene Paredes, Patri Guijarro, and Marta Torrejón each appeared with the trophies of the Super Cup, the Queen’s Cup, and the Women’s League.
In the midst of a political storm following the judicial indictment of former president José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero for alleged corruption crimes linked to the bailout of the airline Plus Ultra for 53 million euros in 2021, and now awaiting the National Court judge José Luis Calama to lift the secrecy of the investigation file, Pedro Sánchez has maintained his public schedule this Monday unaffected by this crisis, and has even tried to convey calm, despite the alarm spreading within the Government and the PSOE over the uncertainty of how this process will evolve. And how far it will escalate.
The judge of the National Court José Luis Calama has at his disposal telephone interceptions and WhatsApp messages sent between the top executives of the airline Plus Ultra and the network allegedly led by former Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero. These conversations now point to the former socialist leader, as stated in the order accessed by La Vanguardia.
El Barcelona, the new champion since May 10, can now rest. They deserve it. Some can already think about the World Cup and others about their trips. In fact, the blaugrana team left half an hour early for vacation. The season could have ended when the top scorer Lewandowski said goodbye with what he does best: a goal of opportunism and instinct. However, the disconnection was evident and Valencia did not miss the chance to come back with two goals in five minutes.
The rejection yesterday in Congress of the decree containing the extraordinary extension of rents opens a scenario of legal uncertainty that may pit tenants who, while the regulation was in force, requested this two-year contract extension, against the owners of these homes, to which the Government admits that there may be lawsuits and trusts that the courts will be in favor of the right to housing.