Doireann Ní Ghríofa, poet: “Childbirth is its own literary genre: it is a story of life and death, it is blood and shit”

A ghost in the throat (Sexto Piso, 2022), the award-winning debut in the narrative of the essayist and poet Doireann Ní Ghríofa (Galway, Ireland, 42 years old), could be defined…

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The Trastámara, the family that transformed the world thanks to a trip

Essays, novels or biographies about the Trastámara dynasty and its monarchs are profuse, deep and well documented. The success of César Cervera Moreno (Ávila, 34 years old) in The Catholic…

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What does your child feel if you punish, yell at or blackmail him: frustration, fear and humiliation

Manuela and Juan are friends and they are the same age, three years old. They quietly play kitchen, until she returns to the living room with her parents and says…

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From the incest of the Ptolemies to the infidelities of the Kennedys: Simon Sebag Montefiore highlights the lurid in his universal history through families

It is difficult to say which is the best anecdote of the many that Simon Sebag Montefiore (London, 57 years old) tells in his new book, The world, a history…

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CPR at school: the importance of teaching children to resuscitate a person in cardiac arrest

A young man vanishes in the street and a group of 20 people gathers around him. They surround him in a circle, they watch him and remain immobile before the…

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The Italian justice denies Juana Rivas custody of her youngest son

The Court of Appeal of the Italian city of Cagliari has denied the Spanish Juana Rivas custody of the minor of her two children. The sentence stipulates that the eldest…

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The controversy over the social bonus charged by the number two of Ayuso and the leader of Más Madrid reaches the Assembly

It is the war. The controversy over the electricity and thermal bonus for the vulnerable population charged by the number two in the government of Isabel Díaz Ayuso, Enrique Ossorio,…

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Where are the good intentions?

Three years have passed since the declaration of the state of alarm to deal with the covid-19 pandemic. With a balance of almost 120,000 deaths in Spain and several million…

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Educating in tribe, a democratic challenge

It is common to hear that Spain has 17 educational systems, one for each autonomous community. The comment reflects, in a derogatory way —and in my opinion absolutely wrong—, one…

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ED in children and adolescents: the dangerous search for perfection where the family is key

The population should take a broader view to understand the role of eating disorders (TCA), being able to ensure that people who suffer from them can manage their emotional and…

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