Fish, the fifth novel that Eva Baltasar (Barcelona, ​​1978), published by Club Editor, tells the passionate yet destructive love story of two women. The first is a writer who narrates her journey of fascination, anguish, fear, and escape from her lover. The second, named Victoria, sells paper cones of fish at street markets and lives in a house reminiscent of those Gothic mansions where anything is possible. Translated into some twenty languages ​​and a Booker Prize finalist with BoulderBaltasar is one of the most internationally renowned authors of Catalan literature. Fish It confirms, once again, the singularity, power, and lyricism of his proposal.

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.

"When women get older, they can't find men their own size." That's the subtitle of The Superwoman SyndromeFrom psychologist Antoni Bolinches, this book attempts to understand why women are disappointed with love and why men are disoriented. Originally published in January 2020, shortly before the pandemic, it's now back in a revised and updated edition.

When Ramon Madaula met Silvia Munt in the early 90s, she was a well-known actress and he was a budding actor. "She was a star, she had recently premiered The Diamond Square"He explains. It was in that context that a theater director summoned them both to a café to propose that they star in his play. It was the first time they had met in person. "Neither of us was entirely convinced by the project, and we exchanged home phone numbers to continue talking. That same afternoon, we called each other and confirmed that we didn't want to do it. We didn't work together, but it was the beginning of a relationship that has lasted thirty years."

She is the first person in her family to attend university. She graduated in English Philology and became interested in surveillance studies in modern literature. A Fulbright scholarship brought her to the United States in 2014. She currently teaches at Barnard College, Columbia University, a center for gender studies. Her thesis is titled: Algorithmic love, reorganization of romantic love.

Blanca Lacasa (Madrid, 1972) is a journalist and writer. She is the author of, among others, the novel The accident (Asteroide Books) and the essay The horrible daughters (Libros del KO) that analyzes the relationships between mothers and daughters.

We took advantage of the heatwave and talked about philosophy.

Balzac said that love is not just a feeling, it's also an art. Stendhal said that the person who hasn't experienced a great passion is unaware of the more beautiful half of life. Oscar Wilde said we should always be in love. That's why we should never get married.

A few years ago, psychologist and neuroscientist Alba Cardalda (Barcelona, ​​1989) uploaded a video to Instagram to answer a simple question: how do you politely get someone to go to hell? Rosa dels Vents saw it and asked her for a book to try to answer it. How to get shit started politely (2025), which has placed among the best-selling non-fiction books in Catalan this past Sant Jordi.

Unfortunately, many words about love are like this. From Greek mythology to contemporary cinema and music, our cultural references tend to associate desire, passion, or love with a long chain of humiliation, revenge, and death. The words of love are also just as dark. Words of love that Núria Güell brought to the TNC in April 2024 and which can now be seen at the Tecla Sala in video format. Nine stories that start from the notions of love that the artist has previously sought in prisons: romantic love (from victim to executioner), love of war or weapons, love of God, of freedom, of social revolution, of one's homeland, of one's people and of one's father. Nine stories written and read without filters or censorship by their protagonists, seven of whom have been sentenced to between 4 and 2,111 years in prison for gender violence, belonging to a terrorist or anti-fascist organization, possession of weapons and explosives, armed robbery, moral attack, homicide. Two exceptions are the survivor of an abusive relationship and the sniper, who has been paid and decorated. Güell accompanies him with a series of songs that, in the name of love, speak of madness, addiction, possession and annulment... Remember what "Loves that kill never die"?

I still smile today when I remember the first time my son said to me, "You know, Mom? I have a girlfriend. Her name is Juliet, and she's older than me." He was four then, and Juliet was, in fact, a year older, and they both went to the same class. Preserving the memories of children's first experiences and discoveries serves to frame the initiation rituals of children as emblems that guarantee an immediate smile. They seem like sweet treats of tenderness that will never be tasted, but can be savored through the most nostalgic memory.

Reading and loving. Sant Jordi could be summed up in these two beautiful words. A holiday celebrated with literature and love, in April, just as the trees begin to bud and the days become decidedly longer, is unbeatable. Sant Jordi is a collective explosion but also personal, a day that has a score that everyone can interpret by introducing their own variations.

"Who owns our memories? What happens when people get divorced or separated? Can we prevent someone from having memories of us? No."

"Who owns our memories? What happens when people get divorced or separated? Can we prevent someone from having memories of us? No."

Oscar D'Aniello (Barcelona, ​​1977) and Helena Miquel (Barcelona, ​​1972) return as Delafé and the Blue Flowers for the last time. After the album Of you without me/Of me without you (2013) went their separate ways until They reunited on stage in 2022.. And now they say goodbye with Love (2025), a letter of devotion and appreciation for children, art, and life. Along with Ramir Kulyela, Dani Vega, Chris Carmichael, and D'Aniello's own son—who wrote the album cover—the group embarks on a sonic journey that flows between pop, lyricism, andspoken word, culminating in a 31-minute single-song album. Delafé y las Flores Azules' tour will stop at the Strenes Festival in Girona on April 4th and at the Sala Apolo in Barcelona on May 24th.

Xavier Grasset's first French kiss was with a hamburger. "With a girl from Hamburg," the journalist explained, recalling that elusive yet unforgettable first summer love. He confessed this to the audience at Ver-MOT, held during vermouth time on the terrace of the Taberna de El Foment in Girona as part of the MOT literary festival, this year dedicated to love in all its forms and meanings. Grasset shared a conversation with two authors of a debut book: journalist Agnès Marquès, who has published the novel Nobody knows I'm here, and Glòria Gasch, editor who has jumped to the other side of the profession, that of authors, with the publication ofNow, and every morningThey had to be the authors of a first book because it was about discussing "the first time" in literature and in life. Agnès Marquès explained the reason for her debut as a novelist: "I dedicate myself to journalism because I like to tell stories, and in literature, stories are also told, in this case through the artifice of fiction. They are connecting vessels." But the natural transition from journalism to literature did not prevent her from experiencing the vertigo of a blank page, the obsession with rewriting the text, and the doubts about what she had written, which editor Gloria Gasch (in her role as editor of Columna) dispelled with encouraging advice: Marquès also discovered the fear of the last moment, when the book is at the printers and there is no possibility of amendment: "Can't we stop the machines?"

Maria-Mercè Marçal's verse "another name for love, please" inspires the motto and activities of the new edition of the MOT literary festival, dedicated this time to love in all its forms, beyond inherited clichés and in a "present full of possibilities to love each other". "Who dares not to call new forms of sexual-affective relationships such as polyamory love?" asks the writer, philosopher and specialist in gender studies Montse Barderi, curator of this edition of the MOT, which has the motto "More names for love". "We would like everyone to feel challenged in this edition of the festival. Everyone has or has had love experiences, or lack of love experiences, and that is why this festival speaks to everyone," says Barderi.

Laura Escanes couldn't hide her ear-to-ear smile when the press asked her if she was "excited." Speculations about a possible relationship between the Catalan content creator and the Andorran skier had been rife for days after different users had read the comments they wrote to each other on their social media posts.

One of the most important demands of feminism in the 1970s was that of a "sexual revolution". Fifty years later, can we say that this revolution has taken place? As the #MeToo movement and the more recent #MeTooInceste movement in France have shown, sexual harassment and abuse, especially of women and minors, is still very much alive fifty years after feminism began to denounce it. This sexual violence is transversal and affects institutions that should have the highest ethical standards, such as religious or educational institutions (ARA's report last Sunday about abuses by certain teachers at the Institut del Teatre is an example). In addition to the violence that the people who have been subjected to them have had to endure, the collective tolerance towards these behaviours shows the extent to which they were normalised and perhaps still, to a large extent, continue to be, at least until these collective actions began.