New York Times journalist Amanda Hess became pregnant when she was approaching 35. Perhaps because she has specialized professionally in studying new technologies—especially those derived from the internet—the first thing Hess did was to announce that she was pregnant to the phone application that monitored her menstrual cycles. This was the beginning of a very close relationship between the journalist's mobile phone and the gestation of the child, which unexpectedly became complicated from the seventh month onwards. Five years after giving birth, Amanda Hess published Second Life (now in Catalan at Saldonar, translated by Elena Ordeig), where she combines her personal testimony with the analysis of fertility apps, prenatal genetic tests, gender reveal videos, freebirth influencers and Facebook groups and forums about rare diseases. The author connects with ARA via video call from the apartment in New York where she lives with her husband and their two children. She responds with precision and without sparing details, despite addressing delicate topics.

Joan Vinyes Miralpeix (Anglès, 1918 - Barcelona, 2009) could not long resist the hypocrisy of priestly life, the total submission of the Church to Francoism, nor the celibacy (only apparent) that his condition as a priest imposed on him. All these contradictions, and some more, converged in his last mass, on Sunday, October 1, 1950, when from the pulpit of the church of l'Escala he announced to his astonished parishioners that he was ceasing to be a priest. It was the first case of apostasy in Francoist Girona, which tried by all means to bring him back into the fold of the Church, even through institutional conspiracies to make him appear mad and lock him up in a mental asylum. "In the time of national-Catholicism, it was an act of total rebellion and they could not tolerate it, which is why they considered that he could only be mad," explains Josep Maria Vinyes i Vilà, who has taken care of the memoirs written by his father.

A king who is not even wanted in his own house and who has escaped legal punishment due to criminal negligence and the statute of limitations is in no position to lecture on justice, much less to speak of betrayals. But he was king for thirty-eight and a half years (1975-2014), and his opinions carry weight.

Juan Carlos I will publish his memoirs in France on November 5. This Wednesday, a week earlier, the former king made it clear that his objective is none other than to rehabilitate his image after five years of exile in Abu Dhabi. weekly Le Point He has released some excerpts from the book, in which the former monarch defends democracy as his "legacy" in Spain, and in an interview in Le Figaro He himself states that this was Franco's objective when he granted him accession to the throne: "Why lie if it was he who made me king and, in reality, did so to create a more open regime?" Coinciding with this promotion, Juan Carlos I lands in Spain this Wednesday.

There are iconic episodes of the anti-Franco struggle: the workers' movement of Baix Llobregat (from the Siemens strike in 1946 to the general strike thirty years later), the flag hung during the enthronement of the Virgin of Montserrat in 1947, the tram strike of 195. Among these episodes we would place The defenestration of a bust of General Franco and the Spanish flag from a window of the historic building of the University of Barcelona (UB) led by some 150 students who, after an assembly in the Auditorium, had occupied the rectorate on January 17, 1969.