That pile of broken mirrors
Gonzalo Celorio
Tusquet2025. 540 pages. 23.90 euros
In the vital, but above all cultural and literary, memories of the Mexican writer and winner of the 2025 Cervantes Prize, there are homages to his masters and the evocation of passions from Mexico City, to the Baroque or to food and spirits.
> Read Leonardo Padura’s review here
I’m still here
Marcelo Rubens Paiva
Translation by Sophia Neitzert Torres. Shackleton books2025. 304 pages, 22.90 euros
The biography that inspired the film that won the Oscar for best international film focuses on the protagonist’s Alzheimer’s and the national challenge of knowing the past.
> Read Naiara Galarraga Gortázar’s review here
Las Vegas. Chronicle of a bad period
John Gregory Dunne
Translation by Javier Calvo. Catopard2025. 312 pages. 22.95 euros
He didn’t like gambling nor was he interested in the mafia, but the writer and screenwriter, husband of Joan Didion, created a dry and unforgettable chronicle of the casino city.
> Read Andrea Aguilar’s review here
medieval bodies
Jack Hartnell
Translation by Miguel Ángel Martínez-Cabeza. Abada Editori2025. 348 pages. 38 euros
The historian sheds light on a time we usually consider in darkness through a tour of medicine in the Middle Ages and the history of its art
> Read Manel García Sánchez’s review here
Nobody was waiting for me here
Noelia Ramirez
Anagram. 144 pages, 14.90 euros
The essay by journalist Noelia Ramírez explores the landscape of limbos, those non-places that refer to the origins or the space in which one wishes to place oneself.
> Read Claudi Pérez’s review here
Father Pica. Cartography of an abuser in the Church
Julio Núñez Montaña
Discussion2025. 288 pages, 19.90 euros
Journalist Julio Núñez Montaña publishes his investigation into Father Alfonso Pedrajas, a sexual predator who abused more than 80 children in the Juan XXIII school in Cochabamba.
> Read Francesc Valls’ review here
The Cuckoo’s Labyrinth
Maximum
The Dome2025. 164 pages. 24 euros
With this volume Max demonstrates that his long career was born from continuous experimentation with the language of comics.
> Read the review by Álvaro Pons and Noelia Ibarra here
Here where I am
María Castro Hernández and Tyto Alba
Astiberri2025. 120 pages. 18 euros
Castro and Alba create a powerful anti-war discourse that does not fall into the trap of equidistance, thanks to a first-person story that realistically narrates the infinite absurdity of that horror that becomes an everyday experience.
> Read the review by Álvaro Pons and Noelia Ibarra here
My friend Kim Jong-un
Keum Suk Gendry-Kim
Translation by María Rosario Albarracín. Tank graphics2025. 288 pages. 23.65 euros
Kim Jong-un’s biography allows the cartoonist to simultaneously create a suggestive reflection on the evolution of her country and of a society that grew up in constant confrontation and fear of war.
> Read the review by Álvaro Pons and Noelia Ibarra here
Bald
Tereza Drahoňovská and Štěpánka Jislová
Translation by Katerina Valentova. Graphic swath2025. 128 pages. 7.90pm. Also in Catalan
From the screenwriter’s personal experience, Bald explores the path of accepting the disease not as resignation, but as a reclamation of an identity that cannot be dictated by exclusive norms.
> Read the review by Álvaro Pons and Noelia Ibarra here
Brunnhilde in the Silver
Rigol Genes
Apa Apa cartoon2025. 160 pages. 22.90 euros
Rigol begins by playing with everyday absurdity which, transferred onto the stage and backstage of the theatre, forces us to consider fictions as multifaceted forms of a reality that can never be represented in its entirety.
> Read the review by Álvaro Pons and Noelia Ibarra here
