For me, the tricky part of writing an article is deciding what to talk about. I only write one this week, but I always struggle to choose a topic. Usually, once I have it and I've structured what I want to say in my head and on paper, I start writing and it flows pretty much on its own. Today, that's not happening: I know exactly what I want to talk about, but I don't know how to do it. In fact, this is the fifth draft I've written, and, for better or worse, it will be the final one, because I have to send the article to the editorial office soon. For now, on my computer, it has a very simple title, but one that makes its content very clear: "Latest Article." After several years writing for theNow we readI have to leave it, because starting in January I'm joining the Institut Ramon Llull teamIt's a job that excites me, that I'm very grateful for, that I have endless respect for, and that I consider a privilege. However, it has involved a sacrifice, because while I'm working, I won't be able to be a journalist.

Journalist Anna Guitart will be the new director of the Institut Ramon Llull. The position had been vacant since early November, when Pere Almeda's term as head of the institution ended. Guitart will serve a four-year term and her objective is to promote the international reach of the Catalan language and culture. The journalist, who until now has been a contributor to ARA Leemos, assumes the position after having been... curator of the Barcelona program at the Guadalajara Book Fairwhich took place at the end of November and beginning of December. Her work consisted of organizing the literary and cultural program of the event: from inviting writers and publishers to attend to launching two exhibitions and the numerous activities that took place around the fair.

Francesc Eiximenis (Girona, 1330 - Perpignan, 1409), one of the most widely read medieval writers: among his readers were kings such as Martí l'Humà. Valentí Almirall (Barcelona, ​​1841-1904), a left-wing Catalanist. Josep Pallach (Figueres, 1920 - L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, 1977), politician and educator, member of the POUM and the CNT. Or the writer and feminist activist Maria Aurèlia Campmany (Barcelona, ​​1918 - 1991). These are some of the thirty authors that form part of the collection. Catalan classics of political thought. Co-published by the Institut Ramon Llull and the Institute for Self-Government Studies of the Generalitat (Catalan Government), the collection aims to make the texts of Catalan political and legal thought from the Middle Ages to the 20th century available to readers around the world. In Catalan and English, the words of all these thinkers will be accompanied by an introductory text by Catalan and international academics who will put the thought of each one into context.

Can you travel the world as a Catalan? Yes, but it requires patience. Constant explanations must be given. The interlocutor usually starts with a prejudice: you're Spanish, period. This is where the mess begins. It gets tiresome.

In the city of Barcelona, there are more than 2,000 fountains, both ornamental and drinking water. Many of the ornamental fountains do not operate with water suitable for consumption, but even so, during times of drought, the City Council closed them to raise awareness of the seriousness of the situation. Now, the curators of the Catalan pavilion at the upcoming Venice Architecture Biennale, architects Mireia Luzárraga and Alejandro Muiño (Takk) and Eva Franch, propose, as part of their project, Water parliaments, create a "data source," that is, "an urban instrument that helps us understand when we are in a water crisis situation," as Eva Franch explains.