"What can we do? How can we act? How do we invite action?" These are some of the questions asked during the presentation of the Biennial of Thought, which for ten years now—this being its fifth edition—has turned Barcelona's public squares into a place for debate and reflection. In an increasingly dark world, ideas are more welcome than ever, and this year the reflections do not aim to be nostalgic or apocalyptic, but rather aspire to focus on the present with the motto "Unleashing the present".

Cinema begins to sink its fangs into the fascinating universe of gothic horror of Mariana Enríquez, who is the great current reference of Latin American fantastic literature, with an extraordinary universe of gothic horror deeply rooted in the Argentine reality that has not gone unnoticed by cinema. While the adaptation that the Barcelona-born Marçal Forés is preparing of the short story was being finalized Where are you, my heart?, last year it premiered at the Sitges Festival the remarkable La virgen de la tosquera, which started from two of the author's short stories, and this Sunday it has arrived at the San Sebastian Festival My sad dead, in which the Chilean Pablo Larraín adapts four of Enríquez's short stories: A sunny place for shady people, My sad dead, When we spoke to the dead and Julie.

"Are we together because we love each other or because we have become accustomed to each other?" he asks. Together the teacher played by Alison Brie, who is increasingly having doubts about her boyfriend, a musician reluctant to commit, with no professional prospects and, lately, with little desire to make love. Added to their marital crisis is another problem: the supernatural phenomenon that makes it impossible for them to stray too far from each other and, when they touch, their flesh fuses. The perfect nightmare or the solution to marital problems?

The popularity of Mariana Enriquez (Buenos Aires, 1973) has continued to grow worldwide over the last decade. This week, dozens of readers of the Argentine author were left outside the new La Central bookstore in Consell de Cent, where she was presenting the reissue of the novel. How to disappear completelyPublished in 2004 and now republished by Anagrama, it delves into the life of a teenager, Matías, who becomes obsessed with the idea of fleeing Buenos Aires, in part because he has an older brother living in Barcelona. The discovery of a packet of cocaine could be the stroke of luck he's been waiting for.

"It's the last book I read," says Barcelona native Víctor F. Clares, one of the members of Ladilla Rusa, the band he shares with Tania Lozano and with which he's touring the country on a summer concert tour. Despite having a full schedule and being up and down, he still finds time to read. He read a lot since he was little, and explains that his love for reading intensified during his adolescence with the discovery ofAmélie Nothomb, the Belgian writer who can make your stomach churn. However, today she recommends The good evil, by Argentine Samanta Schweblin, a read that reminded her a lot of the feeling she had with Nothomb.

Summer is coming to its final weeks and, with the change of season, so does the rentrée Literary. September is traditionally a month packed with new releases in the publishing market, many of which mark the start of the school year. We've selected the 25 most promising.