"I think all my books have something related to mythology or some kind of revelation. It's about searching for something that isn't obvious, making a discovery. But I try to make each book very different; that is, I try to do what I don't know how to do. Because I think that in literature we have to take risks, you know?" Anna Pantinat (Barcelona, ​​1977) is a multifaceted artist. She is a part-time high school teacher, a member with her sister Laia of the electro-punk garage band Pentina't Lula, and, until recently, the author of four books of poetry, including Posthuman joys (2025), which is in the process of being set to music. Sumer is here It is the fifth book he has published and comes after 13 years of work.

Mara Faye Lethem (New York, 1971) writes as if she were slicing open the tender—and often rotten—flesh of contemporary motherhood with a freshly sharpened knife. A translator into English of Albert Sánchez Piñol, Pol Guasch, Jaime Cabré, Jordi Nopca, and Max Besora, she now publishes her first novel in Catalan. Crazy series if you didn'tTranslated by Miriam Cano. It's a story that begins like a typical light comedy, full of nervous giggles, mothers in the park, and clueless fathers, but it soon reveals itself as a fierce satire, a scathing portrait of the fascist trap of perfection. The protagonist, Barbara, pregnant for the second time, navigates a suburban landscape that leads to organic yogurt and anxiety. All the mothers around her are impeccable, controlled, efficient; she, on the other hand, carries the feeling of being on the verge of exploding, both body and mind.

The writer, screenwriter, and contributor to fanzines and publications underground Jordi Sanglas has died suddenly at the age of 46. Born in Vic in 1979, Sanglas made his name as a writer in 2013 in the then-young Males Herbes publishing house with the novel 100,000 candles.

Cupid has gone down in history as a winged child-god: seductive, deceitful, and malevolent, he shoots poisoned arrows that have the power to awaken desire and love in the recipient, until he himself is wounded by his own weapon and goes mad for the young Psyche. "Cupid is also known by the name of Eros, and the love he represents has a double connotation, that of sweetness and that of bitterness: we desire what we cannot catch, what appears and disappears, like a bird that flies across the sky." explains writer and editor Elisabet Riera (Barcelona, ​​​​1973), who has just published one of the most unique books of this fall, The winged ones (Malas Hierbas / Siruela, 2025), where birds, angels, gods, monsters, and other flying creatures continue to be represented as they have been for centuries of cultural history.

Theodore Sturgeon (1918-1985) was an American science fiction, horror, and fantasy writer. He always had limited commercial success, although he was a screenwriter for the series Star Trek and two of his stories were adapted for the legendary series The Twilight Zone, Sturgeon had a following of loyal readers and some renowned admirers, such as Kurt Vonnegut and Ray BradburyHe died in relative obscurity, after many years of barely publishing anything. A year after his death, the novel he had been working on for over a decade was published, Cosdivino, now published in Catalan in Males Herbes in a good translation by Josep Sampere Martí.

This week the list of writers who will travel to Mexico was published. for the Guadalajara International Book Fair and my friend Elisenda Solsona is one of the guests. When we publish Natives: ten beastly tales (Comanegra), my daughter asked me which of the friends we had written the book with was my favorite writer. The joke made me laugh and made me think about when she liked them. The real spies and made me choose which one I liked best. Just like before, I felt bad about having to choose because, like the spies, my friends are all fantastic, but if I had to, I'd go with Alex and Eli (via Solsona), respectively. When she asked me why I chose her, I reflected on it: because of her overflowing imagination, I answered.

This spring, walking through the streets and squares of Girona, it is easy to notice that in parks and garden areas, grasses and leafy plants grow, some more than a meter high, forming urban oases of wild vegetation Very lush with flowers of all colors. These are areas that until now the City Council, as is the case in most large cities, usually mowed as soon as the grass grew taller than a foot, assuming that the so-called weeds They are ugly and an eyesore. But in the current term, the Department of Climate Action has approved a pilot project to allow all this vegetation to grow naturally to assert its aesthetic and ecological value for the city. Provided, of course, that it doesn't bother or hinder the mobility of citizens.

Rebeca has just turned 40 and has moved from Barcelona to Ocata with her partner, Flavi, and their two children, Bru and Nit. Despite being in a seemingly idyllic place, trouble soon strikes at the doorstep: a friendship with a family of mysterious neighbors is the first step in a series of increasingly disturbing discoveries, including suicides, witchcraft, a cult, and a necropolis, all experienced in parallel. This is the starting point of Let other people's children die, the second novel by Roser Cabré-Verdiell (Barcelona, ​​​​1982), which arrives three years afterHELP, chosen by the team of critics of theNow We Read as the best narrative work of 2022 and winner of the Finestres Prize, among others. Like its predecessor, it is published by Males Herbes and consolidates the Barcelona-born author's flexible and powerful voice. What's the idea?