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The Reading Room/8
A literary journal in book form. Essays, fiction, poetry, and art.
The Reading Room/3
THE READING ROOM/3, a literary journal in book form features fiction, essays, poetry and art. In this issue: Amoz Oz, Saul Bellow, Juan Goytisolo, Norman Birnbaum, Judith Rossner, Stanley Crouch, Barbara Probst Solomon, Stephen Dixon, Elizabeth Gaffney, Don Maggin, Alan Cheuse, Lionel Abel, Michael Carroll, Angel Vasquez.
Shifting Subjectivities in Contemporary Fiction and Film from Spain
This collection of essays analyzes shifting notions of self as represented in films and novels written and produced in Spain in the twenty-first century. In doing so, the anthology establishes an international dialogue of multicultural perspectives on trends in contemporary Spain, and serves as a useful reference for scholars and students of Spanish literature and cinema. The primary avenues of exploration include representations of recovery in post-crisis Spain, marginalized texts and identities, silenced subjectivities, intersecting relationships, and spaces of desire and control. The individual chapters focus on major events, such as the global economic crisis, the tension between majority and minority cultures within Spain, and the ongoing repercussions of past trauma and historical memory. In doing so, they build upon theories of identity, subjectivity, gender, history, memory, and normativity.
The Book of Barcelona
A slighted wife escapes her wealthy family for the evening and stumbles into the city's red-light district... The head of security at Barcelona's container port searches for a figure that only he has seen sneak in... An elderly woman brings home a machine that will turn her body into atoms, so she can leave behind a city that is no longer recognisable... Historically, Barcelona is a city of resistance and independence; a focal point for Catalan identity, as well as the capital of Spanish republicanism. Nestled between the Mediterranean coast and mountains, this burgeoning city has also been home to some of the greatest names in modern art and architecture, and attracts visitors and migrants from all over the world. As a result, the city is a melting-pot of cultures, and the stories gathered here offer a miscellany of form and genre, fittingly reminiscent of one of Gaudi's mosaics. From the boy-giant outgrowing his cramped flat on the city's outskirts, to the love affair that begins in a launderette, we meet characters who are reclaiming the independence of their city by challenging common misconceptions and telling its myriad truths.
From Ocean to Desert
A self-professed Seeker/Hermit, as well as Critic and Wise Woman/Crone, Janet Sunderland spent a lifetime trying to find healing, purpose, a spiritual community, and God. From Ocean to Desert recounts the part of her journey that began in Hawaii and ended in Kansas, with extended stays in Georgia and New Mexico, and short layovers in Washington, D.C. An intense and life-changing stay at a retreat center near Volcano, Hawaii, gave her space to examine the many dimensions of her life with a supportive, yet challenging, circle of healers, therapists, artists, and spiritual enthusiasts. Her next stop was Georgia, where she lived with her son’s family and enrolled her grandson into first grade,...
Fables of Development: Capitalism and Social Imaginaries in Spain (1950-1967)
Fables of Development: Capitalism and Social Imaginaries in Spain (1950-1967) focuses on a basic paradox: why is it that the so-called “Spanish economic miracle” —a purportedly secular, rational, and technocratic process— was fictionally portrayed through providential narratives in which supernatural and extraordinary elements were often involved? In order to answer this question, this book examines cultural fictions and social life at the time when Spain turned from autarchy to the project of industrial and tourist development. Beyond the narratives about progress, modernity, and consumer satisfaction on a global and national level, the cultural archives of the period offer intellec...
Divorce is in the Air
Joan-Marc's out of work, he's alone, he has a heart condition, his mother's addicted to pills, he can't stand his sister. Otherwise, life is beautiful. And there's a lot that his estranged second wife doesn't know about him. But in Divorce is in the Air he now sets out to tell her. He begins with the failure of his first marriage, describing a holiday taken in a last-ditch attempt to salvage a once passionate relationship. Recalling this ill-fated trip triggers a life-story's worth of flashbacks. From pivotal childhood scenes - his earliest sexual encounters, his father's suicide - he moves on through the years, hopscotching between Barcelona and Madrid, describing a life of indulgence and of appetites. The result is an unapologetic, daring, acerbic novel by an electrifying young writer about love and the end of love, and how hard it can be to let go.
Pierre Bourdieu in Hispanic Literature and Culture
Pierre Bourdieu in Hispanic Literature and Culture is a collective reflection on the value of French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu’s work for the study of Spanish and Latin American literature and culture. The authors deploy Bourdieu’s concepts in the study of Modernismo, avant-garde Mexico, contemporary Puerto Rican literature, Hispanism, Latin American cultural production, and more. Each essay is also a contribution to the study of the politics and economics of culture in Spain and Latin America. The book, as a whole, is in dialogue with recent methodological and theoretical interventions in cultural sociology and Latin American and Iberian studies.
The Jewish Traveler
What is there of Jewish interest to see in Bombay? In Casablanca? Where are the kosher restaurants in Seattle? How did the Jewish community in Hong Kong originate? The Jewish Traveler: Hadassah Magazine's Guide to the World's Jewish Communities and Sights provides this information and much more.
Meine Geschichte ohne dich
Ein Mann zwischen Ehe, Rausch und Lebensüberdruss - leidenschaftlich und schockierend offen Auch Joan-Marcs zweite Ehe liegt in Trümmern. Dabei ist er erst Anfang vierzig. Er zieht von Bar zu Bar durch das nächtliche Barcelona; in Gedanken ist er bei seiner Frau, die ihn wenige Wochen zuvor hat sitzen lassen. Vor ihr legt er eine schonungslos ehrliche Lebensbeichte ab. Er erzählt von Helen, seiner ersten Ehefrau, einer Amerikanerin mit blonder Mähne – von den ersten wilden Jahren voller Begierde und ihren letzten gemeinsamen Tagen, als sie ihm ein Messer in die Schulter rammte. Joan-Marc erzählt aber auch von seinen Eltern, deren Bürgerlichkeit sie nicht vor dem Absturz retten konnte – auch sie irgendwann geschieden –, von seinen Prägungen, sexueller Initiation und Männlichkeit, von Depression und Rausch, Lebensüberdruss und Überlebenswille. Ein scharfsinniger Roman, der glauben machen möchte, dass man das Leben unmöglich meistern kann – eine Lektion, gegen die wir uns aber, wie Gonzalo Tornés Held, mit jeder Faser unseres Körpers sträuben.
