The collection Crimes.es celebrates a major milestone, reaching issue number 100, with an exceptional volume, Barcelona, ​​a crime trilogy, which brings together the three detective novels by Rafael Tasis (Barcelona, ​​1906-Paris, 1966): A crime on the Parallel, The Valencian Bible and It's time to fold. According to its director, Àlex Martín Escribà (Barcelona, ​​1974), who holds a doctorate from the University of Salamanca with a thesis on the crime genre in Catalonia, it was worthwhile "returning to the origins of the genre" with this book, paying "recognition to Rafael Tasis, the person who opened its doors." For Àlex Martín, Tasis is "the Catalan Edgar Allan Poe."

Intruder in the dust It is not usually included among the handful of masterpieces of William Faulkner (1897-1962) However, upon closer inspection, it is an excellent novel with great literary strength. We could even consider it a very suitable title for readers who want to delve into the author's universe for the first time. It is also one of his works with the most evident anti-racist commitment. This is a noteworthy fact, especially considering that it was published in 1948, several decades before the civil rights movement took center stage in the United States.

At first glance, it may seem that science fiction has been a minority pursuit among Catalan authors. Historically, it hasn't been a genre highly valued by academia, it has received little—or poor—publication in the media, and readers have only embraced it en masse on rare occasions. The exhibition Essa EfaCurated by journalist, professor, and literary critic Joaquim Noguero (Manresa, 1964), the exhibition aims to correct this perception by exploring some of the most compelling (and largely unusual) works of Catalan science fiction. "Although science fiction has been represented primarily by authors, scholars, and publishers who have not positioned themselves within the..." mainstreamIt has more than a century of history, and perhaps its most recognizable success is the Second origin typescript"Manuel de Pedrolo's novel, which is by far the best-selling novel in the history of Catalan literature," Noguero recalls. One of the clichés of the fantasy genre defines its followers as geeks: perhaps those who cultivate them—even when they become best-sellers– they are too.

Manuel de Pedrolo (l'Aranyó, 1918 – Barcelona, ​​​​1990) tried to get his first and only political essay, entitled, through censorship three times. Letters from CataloniaAll three times, the censors rejected him. The writer displayed, in the judges' words, a "definitely separatist character" and presented a text they considered "political propaganda with particular violence." It was the summer of 1966, a time when the Franco dictatorship was experiencing a certain degree of openness, but even so, the state apparatus did not yield to Pedrolo's demands. Letters from Catalonia It was forgotten in a drawer until, six decades later, the publishing house Comanegra unearthed it from the writer's archive. The essay now sees the light of day in an anthology entitled Combat prose, which is part of the collection Authorships and which also includes about forty articles by Pedrolo published between 1964 and 1988, some of which are also unpublished.