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Catalonia Is Real. And Yet…

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“Catalonia Is Real. And Yet…” Rev. of Guillem Martínez, La gran ilusión (2016). Public Books 18 Oct. 2017. Full text available at Public Books.

The Basque Novel Comes of Age

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Public Books 1 May 2017. Full text available at Public Books.

La vergüenza de Javier Cercas.

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Rev. of El monarca de las sombras by Javier Cercas. La Marea 21 March 2017. “Respuesta a Alberto Moreiras.” La Marea 30 March 2017. Also in Infrapolítica 26 March 2021. Full Review | Réplica de Alberto Moreiras | Contrarréplica a Alberto Moreiras.

Politics and Play in Spain Today

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Public Books 14 March 2017. Full text available at Public Books.

El capital menguante de Cebrián

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ABC Cultural 4 Feb. 2017. Full text available at ABC Cultural.

La gran estafa

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CTXT: Revista Contexto 95 (14 Dec 2016). Full text available at CTXT: Revista Contexto.

Review: Olga Glondys. La Guerra Fría cultural y el exilio republicano español

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Bulletin of Spanish Studies (2016): 11-12. Full text available at Bulletin of Spanish Studies.

Spain’s Foreign Fighters: The Lincoln Brigade and the Legacy of the Spanish Civil War. Rev. of Spain in Our Hearts by Adam Hochschild.

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Foreign Affairs 95.5 (2016): 155-161. Full text at Foreign Affairs.

Review: José Colmeiro. “El ruido y la furia. Conversaciones con Manuel Vázquez Montalbán, desde el planeta de los simios”

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ALCES XXI 2 (2016): 389-394.

Fighting Fascism: Review of Spain in Our Hearts

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BBC History Magazine June 2016: 80.

Populismo y honestidad: el intelectual, el pueblo y sus afectos. (With Noelia Adánez.)

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FronteraD June 2, 2016. Full text available at FronteraD.

¡Todos mediocres! Crítica e inclemencia en España. El caso Gregorio Morán

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FronteraDSept. 24, 2015. Full text available at FronteraD. Repr. in Rebelión. (Full text.)

Javier Cercas y El impostor, o el triunfo del kitsch

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FronteraD Feb. 12-18, 2015. Full text available at FronteraD.

Review: Albrecht Buschmann. Max Aub und die spanische Literatur zwischen Avantgarde und Exil

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Bulletin of Spanish Studies 91.8 (2014): 1283-85. Full text.

Review: Mario Martín Gijón. “Los (anti)intelectuales de la derecha en España: de Giménez Caballero a Jiménez Losantos”

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Bulletin of Spanish Studies 91.8 (2014): 1278-80. Full text.

Biografía de un hombre masa. ¿Qué le debe España a José Ortega y Gasset?

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FronteraD Aug. 7-13, 2014. Full text available at FronteraD. Reprinted in Res Publica. | Full text.

La traición de los intelectuales. Rev. of Andrés Trapiello Las armas y las letras.

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Ínsula 809 (mayo de 2014): 10-12. Full text, with introduction by Jordi Gracia and response by Trapiello.

Review: Max Aub, Campo francés. El Laberinto Mágico III. Obras completas, Vol. V–A / Poeta en la arena / El paraíso incendiado, España 1936-1939; La almohada de arena; Versos del maquis

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Bulletin of Spanish Studies 91.3 (2014): 471-73. Full text.

Review: Maria Rosell. “Los poetas apócrifos de Max Aub”

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Hispanic Review 82.1 (2014): 113-15.Full text.

Review: Helen Graham. The War and Its Shadow: Spain’s Civil War in Europe’s Long Twentieth Century

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Bulletin of Hispanic Studies 91.3 (2014): 324-26. Full text.