Scholar of Spain @JohnsHopkins // Author of The Op-Ed Novel @Harvard_Press
Madrid • Baltimore • Santander
Joined June 2015
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Today is the pub date for my book, "The Op-Ed Novel"!
The book tells the story of how five Spanish novelists changed contemporary fiction through their opinion columns. It's about how literature and politics, and fiction and nonfiction, blend together.
hup.harvard.edu/books/978067…
El vídeo de la segunda jornada de la serie "Hispanidad en disputa," celebrada el pasado jueves en @casamerica, ya está disponible.
Participaron Alec Dinnin (@uc3m), @MorenoLuzon, Marisa González de Oleaga (@UNED).
¡Echadle un vistazo!
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La semana que viene participaré en la serie de conferencias "Hispanidad en disputa," organizada por Carlos Morado (@UChicago).
El martes a las 18h en @cbamadrid tengo el honor y el reto de moderar un panel sobre "Hispanidad, Iberosfera y batalla cultural."
¡Venid!
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Hispanidad en disputa. La gran pantomima
@cbamadrid, 13.10.2026 y 16.10.2026
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“One summer afternoon, 10 years ago, I received an email that I initially thought was a prank from a friend.”
New at PB: Antonio Y. Vázquez-Arroyo on an email he received from Fredric Jameson—and the fruitful intellectual conversation that followed.buff.ly/ci82cD6
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New at PB: Antonio Y. Vázquez-Arroyo remembers receiving an email from Fredric Jameson ten years ago. What he at first thought was a prank became “one of the most intense, fruitful, and memorable intellectual experiences [he has] ever had.” buff.ly/ci82cD6
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Paul Michael Johnson asks: “Can looking to women beholden to God help us escape a society so fixated on itself? Or does it simply package those devout lives as the latest content for a culture industry desperate for the next trending topic?”
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“From this vacuum of understanding, writing emerges.”
New at PB: Carolyn Fornoff reviews “The Suicides” by Antonio Di Benedetto and “String Theory / Teoría de Cuerdas” by Karen Villeda.
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Today in @PublicBooks, the brilliant scholar and critic Carolyn Fornoff (@CornellROMS) writes about the literature of suicide, and why this inexplicable form of tragedy has become such an endless source of literary writing.
@nyrbclassics @KarenVilleda
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“The same week that Rosalía dropped Lux, Ana Garriga and Carmen Urbita published ‘Convent Wisdom: How Sixteenth-Century Nuns Could Save Your Twenty-First-Century Life.’”
New at PB: Paul Michael Johnson looks at the rise of “nuncore.”
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Today at @PublicBooks, my wonderful colleague Paul Michael Johnson (@JohnsHopkins) writes about @RosaliaInfo_ES, @hijasdefelipe, & "nuncore"—our contemporary cultural fascination with clergywomen.
These are, by far, my favorite pieces to commission.
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In a review of Ana Garriga & Carmen Urbita’s “Convent Wisdom” (@AvidReaderPress), Paul Michael Johnson asks, “Can looking to women beholden to God help us escape a society so fixated on itself?”
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“No matter how it might get dressed up, the problem of playing by someone else’s rules remains.”
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“As points of view shift and protagonists flee—whether from conflicts, constricting circumstances, or even each other—the two novels reveal how the form can bring such concerns clearly into focus.”
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Sam Carter (@dartmouth) is one of the best critics in English writing on Latin American literature.
At @PublicBooks, he writes about books by @lalitx & @sputnikon3 and how novels "sharpen our perspective on the present even as they swerve away from it."
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New at PB: In a new review of “Cautery” by Lucía Lijtmaer (tr. Maureen Shaughnessy, @charcopress) and “Berlin Atomized” by Julia Kornberg (tr. Jack Rockwell, @astrahousebooks), Sam Carter asks, “How far can speculative comparisons scale?”
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Half a century after his death and Francisco Franco still has friends in high places. bit.ly/4yQeWoU
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What are our editors reading? For @bcqer, the co-editor of our Lit in Translation section, it’s @MichelNieva’s “Technology and Barbarism: or: how billionaires will save us from the end of the world” translated Rahul Bery and Daniel Hahn (@astrahousebooks).
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How Franco ruled Spain.
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Half a century after his death and Francisco Franco still has friends in high places.
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