TikTok allows China to project pragmatism and a willingness to negotiate. It is not a defeat; it is a victory. Robert Redford in The Sting would have understood it that way, too.
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President Xi just made a rare visit to Europe, bringing to mind a famous song about Che Guevara.
Steven Frears is going to make a film about Billy Wilder, Han-Joon Chang confesses that One Hundred Years of Solitude is his favorite novel, and Carlos Franganillo argues that we tend to idealize the past… All this at the Hay Festival Seville 2024.
Enrique Gracia Trinidad pays homage to Whitman, Celaya, Lorca, and more.
This new work by Juan Vicente Piqueras, noting that it is his particular cry, or whisper, of anguish and loneliness, as Luis Alberto de Cuenca, president of the jury that awarded Cerezas the II Premio Nacional de Poesía Ciudad de Lucena Lara Cantizani.
Isabel Ayuso, President of the Comunidad de Madrid, commissioned the book “Soy de Madrid”. The book contains contributions of Nobel Prize, Mario Vargas-Llosa, Arturo Pérez-Reverte, Andrés Trapiello… along with lesser mortals such as my colleague Pablo Sun and myself.
India has unseated its former Metropolis, Great Britain, as the world's fifth largest economic power. PM Narendra Modi is leveraging to make the Great Leap Forward with Indian characteristics.
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Cry of Love (Towards a General Theory of Cavities) offers some concepts about love, poetically trying to bring order to the imbroglios in your heart, regardless of the mess you might have created there.