Lucy Worsley (United Kingdom, 1973) began her career as a curator of historic houses and learned that history is not only explained through parliaments and battles, but also in the kitchens and bathrooms of the house. How was laundry done? What was the bathroom like? These are questions she addresses in If These Walls Could Talk (Capitan Swing). By joining small details, she achieves a reconstruction of the great changes that have occurred in our society.

Vania Arana was born in Peru in the late sixties, but she has been living in Catalonia for over thirty years. She arrives at the interview wearing a green t-shirt with the phrase: "Organize yourself if you don't want to be organized." It is the motto of Las Kellys, the union she presides over, which brings together hotel maids, that is, women who, like her, clean hotels.

Life expectancy has doubled in a century in Spain. And in the last 50 years it has gone from 73.5 to 84 years in Catalonia. A revolution that is not only biological or sanitary, but also cultural, according to the biochemist and science communicator Pere Estupinyà. In his latest book, What do you want to be when you grow up, he explores how today's 70 years have nothing to do with the 70 years of previous generations, and argues that it is a stage that can perfectly be the best of life.

Yaya Buschraft asks us not to say her real name, nor where she lives. She is in the mountains, that's for sure. Anyone who follows her on social media knows this, where she has thousands of followers, to whom she explains her day-to-day life building cabins. She decided this would be her life project when she was nearing 70, and now she tells her story in the book Living without asking permission (Penguin).

Andrés Villena (Elx, 1980) has spent years investigating business lobbies, family sagas, banks, and institutions to be able to x-ray the structure and functioning of the Spanish elite. The result is Las élites que dominan España,a book that was to be published by Planeta, which finally backed out, and has ended up being published by Libros del K.O. 

Cory Doctorow (Toronto, 1971) is one of the most lucid voices for discussing power and technology. Aware of the importance of words –he is a novelist and journalist–, he invented a concept at the end of 2022 to define, avoiding technicalities, the process that platforms were experiencing: emmerdification. A concept that has become popular and gives its name to his latest book, which has been translated into Spanish by Capitán Swing.

Carlota Elias was clear that she needed a topic that would motivate her for her final degree project in criminology. And she came across the word hyrbridophilia: people who are attracted to criminals. She has finally turned it into the book Hibristofília, a tale of (enclosed) fairies.

Beth Noveck (New Jersey, USA, 1971) makes it clear in each of her answers that she refuses to fall into defeatism. She offers solutions, gives examples of success, and argues that AI can help improve the functioning of institutions. And she knows what she's talking about, not only because she is an expert in how to use technology to make governments more open, but because she knows institutions from the inside: she was the first Chief Technology Officer of the United States during the administration of Barack Obama. She visits Barcelona to sponsor the presentation of the Pompeu Fabra University's 2026-2037 Strategy.

"I have always dressed by imitating others," says Elisabet Coll-Vinent at the beginning of I want to dress like you (now books), an essay in which she reflects on authenticity and imitation, the individual and the collective, and in which she invites us to develop a greater understanding of fashion to better understand ourselves and the society we are part of.

For as long as she can remember, Kate Manne has wanted to be thinner. It's one of the first confessions this philosopher and professor at Cornell University has made to Irreducibles (Captain Swing), a book in which personal reflections give way to a broad analysis of how fatphobia acts as a factor of inequality and oppression.

Josep Sala i Cullell is a geography teacher at a high school in Norway. His first essay, Plug generation, It sparked some controversy when addressing generational power struggles. Now it returns with We are not 6 million (Portico), A book in which he calls for open discussion about immigration and criticizes the fact that we have been sold, as inevitable, a model designed to favor employers and harm workers.

Nazanin Armanian, an Iranian political scientist, has been forced into exile twice. The first time was during the Shah's reign, and the second time under Ayatollah Khomeini. Armanian, sentenced to death for belonging to the Afghan Women's Democratic Organization and the Communist Party, came to live in Barcelona, ​​from where she fled due to threats from the regime after they located her address. She now lives in Madrid.

35,000 bars closed in Spain between 2010 and 2023, according to data from the INE, the National Institute of Statistics. What is lost when a bar closes? This is what Hugo Subtil, an expert researcher in economic policy and professor at the University of Zurich, has studied in France.

The United Nations Special Rapporteur on Palestine, Francesca Albanese, is one of the voices that have most forcefully denounced the genocide in GazaHis reports have served to highlight not only the atrocities committed in recent years in the Gaza Strip, but also the complicity of third countries and companies that profit from the situation in the Middle East. He publishes When the world sleeps (Galaxia Gutenberg), a journey through 10 conversations that move between intimate and political discourse, and attempt to answer key questions about impunity, resistance, war, and peace.

It's probably the most repetitive format. We can find it in the morning, at noon, and at night, on the radio and on television. Antonio Villarreal has decided to analyze it in Tertulianos (Peninsula), a journey through 40 years of the opinion industry in Spain, and a photograph, at the same time, of a sector that moves between precariousness and power.

Oriol Jara (Barcelona, ​​1980) is a screenwriter and television director. He has been, among other things, assistant director of the program Buenafuente, screenwriter of Poland and currently directs The jungle, the afternoon program on TV3. But Jara is also a Christian activist. And, with the book Why I believe in God, begins a new collection of Destiny of Thought in which various people answer the question posed in the book's title: why do they believe in God?

OzurieFeeling torn between the life you have and the life you want. MoriiThe desire to capture a fleeting experience. These are the emotions that John Koenig began to translate into words, first as a YouTube game, and then, finally, as a book. Dictionary of countless sorrows (Captain Swing), a journey through emotions that Koenig defines for the first time with a single word, but also an invitation to play with language and desacralize it.

He studied physics and mathematics, left the field to write political speeches, tried his hand at playwriting, and today teaches writing as a tenured professor at Georgetown. Such is the complete and diverse curriculum of Michael E. Long, co-author of the Dopamine bestseller, which is now returning with the sequel Dopamine under control (Peninsula), where he offers clues to try to understand why this molecule makes us feel dissatisfied, and how to reverse it.

Democracy, care, truth, and dialogue are the keys to confronting the fascism that is growing everywhere. This is the recipe that Jordi Mir, PhD in Humanities and professor at UPF, presents in Our fascism (Cápsula Editorial).

Like so many things, Juan Carlos Lacruz's passion for photography and airplanes began by chance. Today, retired, he goes to El Prat airport every other day and is the president of the Barcelona Spotters Association.