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.