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Review: Paradoxes of Stasis: Literature, Politics, and Thought in Francoist Spain, by Tatjana Gajić.

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The Historian. 83:3 (2021): 413-414. Full text at The Historian.

¿Quién teme a la libertad de cátedra?

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CTXT: Contexto y Acción  9 Feb. 2022. Full text at CTXT.

Gerda Taro’s Elusive Afterlives: Helena Janeczek’s The Girl with the Leica.

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Reading in Translation, 31 Jan. 2022. Full text at Reading in Translation.

Franco desenterrado. La segunda Transición española

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Barcelona: Pasado & Presente, 2022. Order at Bookshop.org

La dureza de Chirbes o la dificultad de la crítica cultural.

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CTXT: Contexto y Acción 31 Dec. 2021. Full text at CTXT.

Can Saving Soccer Save the World?

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Public Books 6 Dec. 2021. Full text at Public Books.

Novelist Almudena Grandes Told the Truth About the Spanish Dictatorship.

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Jacobin 29 Nov. 2021

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La memoria de Almudena Grandes: afectiva y afiliativa.

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CTXT: Contexto y Acción, 28 Nov. 2021. Full text at CTXT.

In Memoriam: Edward Asner (1929-2021).

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The Volunteer 38.4 (2021): 20-21. Full text at The Volunteer.

Pedro Pastor, Singer/Songwriter: “We’re Still Children of the Dictatorship.”

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The Volunteer 38.4 (Dec. 2021). Full text at The Volunteer.

Rojez.

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CTXT: Contexto y Acción. 1 Nov. 2021. Full text at CTXT.

Review: Sur(rendering), by Mario Martín Gijón.

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Translated from the Spanish by Terence Dooley. Shrivenham: Shearsman Books, 2020. Reading in Translation 1 Nov. 2021. Full text at Reading in Translation.

Cómo el hispanismo internacional ayudó a normalizar el franquismo.

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CTXT: Contexto y Acción 29 Oct. 2021. Full text at CTXT. Repr. in Rebelión, 1 Nov. 2021. (Full text.)

Culturas de coalición en crisis: ¿por qué cuesta cada vez más formar gobiernos?

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CTXT: Contexto y Acción 17 Oct. 2021. Full text at CTXT.

“Escribir las biografías de nuestros personajes históricos es una obligación moral con nuestro pasado.” Anna Caballé, biógrafa.

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CTXT: Contexto y Acción 10 Oct. 2021. Full text at CTXT.

Pedro Pastor: “El franquismo hizo que la copla nos pareciera casposa.”

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La Marea 24 Sept. 2021. Full text at La Marea.

De Churchill a Covadonga: ¿Por qué la derecha está obsesionada con la historia “patriótica”?

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CTXT: Contexto y Acción 24 Sept. 2021. Full text at CTXT. Repr. in Rebelión 25 Sept. 2021. (Full text.)

Edward Asner (1929-2021): actor, activista, líder sindical.

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CTXT: Contexto y Acción 23 Sept. 2021. Full text at CTXT.

“Andreu Nin, por su muerte, es el Lorca catalán. Como teórico, fue nuestro Gramsci.” Andreu Navarra, historiador.

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CTXT: Revista Contexto 15 Sept. 2021. Full text at CTXT.

“Messi tiene mucho más en común con un jugador del Madrid que con un culé cualquiera.” Simon Kuper, periodista deportivo.

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CTXT: Revista Contexto 29 Aug. 2021. Full text at CTXT.