In February 2024, the writer and journalist Patrick Radden Keefe published an article in The New Yorker –he has been writing for it since 2006– titled A teen's fatal plunge into the London Underworld (La caiguda mortal d’un adolescent als baixos fons de Londres). With his usual style, which blends the rigor of the best journalistic investigation with writing that captivates the reader, Radden Keefe addressed the death, in November 2019, of a 19-year-old boy, Zac Brettler, the second son of a well-off family in West London.

When she was 13 or 14, actress Mireia Aixalà read a book about an IRA terrorist. "I don't remember the title. I was very young and had the idea that terrorists were always bad. With that book, I understood what it meant to be part of a terrorist group. It was a book designed for young people, and it had a big impact on me," the actress recalls. From that moment on, Aixalà has always been drawn to books that explore the Northern Ireland conflict and its repercussions. That's why she can't help but recommend one of the reference titles published in recent years: Don't say anything, from the journalist Patrick Radden Keefe (Periscope), translated into Catalan by Ricard Gil. A combination of journalistic investigation and essay, the book chronicles five decades of the conflict through the eyes of two former members of the IRA (Irish Republican Army), a victim of the paramilitary organization, and one of the key figures in the political mediation effort to achieve peace between supporters of Irish unification and loyalists. Don't say anything It was a huge international success and It was adapted for television, with a series released last year.