Review of Contemporary Fiction. Narrativa Breve Contemporánea. English. Español. Català. Since 1997 Posts by editor. https://nitter.cf/t.co/7mfmBdwLr1
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TBR Issue 116 is now online! Featuring stories by Milena Nigam, Elizabeth Rosen, KD Brookins, and Danny Lanzetta. From the archives: Ottessa Moshfegh and Gwyneth Kelly. Quiz: Octopuses in Literature. Book reviews: 3 authors based in Barcelona
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Don’t miss David Hutto’s “Thunder North,” which takes us into a chicken factory in Gainesville, Georgia. Our protagonist is stuck working there and it’s a delight following his thoughts on it all.
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TBR Issue 115 is now online! Featuring stories, a memoir essay, an article on how Carlos Castaneda met Federico Fellini, and lots of fun stuff about comics and the graphic novel. Review on The Final Cut by Don Winslow. Have at it! barcelonareview.com
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so funny! Charles & Camila stand quietly observing the boorish behavior of the US president which hardly surprises them.
Camilla & Melania color-coordinated as if in uniform. prefer Camilia's more stylish hat.
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For a wee break from all the madness, catch this three-and-a-half page story. It's short and sweet, in a good way.
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Do You Remember America Before Trump?
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From The Barcelona Review's current issue, a true delight for Haneke fans in Nicholas Royle’s “Michael Haneke’s Films Ranked,” set against Peter Bradshaw’s Guardian list, with a narrator who could well be a Haneke character himself.
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it is generally forgotten that 15,000-20,000 Germans were killed protesting Hitler, or aligning themselves with groups protesting Hitler. always there are courageous persons in opposition to a rising authoritarian state, as we are seeing in the US; if those in opposition are not quickly joined by many more, indeed many many more, the effort will be lost.
these Nazi state killings of Germans included street executions like those committed by ICE, deaths in concentration camps, torture, & “preventive detention.”
When people imagine how a modern society descends into state violence, they often picture chaos, extremists, or secret death squads. Nazi Germany offers a far more uncomfortable lesson.
Some of the most devastating crimes of the regime were carried out not by elite fanatics, but by ordinary police units operating through familiar procedures, paperwork, and uniforms. Understanding how these police battalions were structured, staffed, and deployed is essential, because their crimes emerged not from disorder, but from the efficient, routine functioning of law enforcement itself.
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The police battalions of Nazi Germany were not ad hoc mobs or irregular auxiliaries but formally organized, bureaucratically administered, and ideologically conditioned units that operated across occupied Europe.
Their existence challenges the comforting myth that mass violence was carried out only by elite SS formations. In reality, ordinary policing institutions were transformed into instruments of systematic repression and mass murder.
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London just joined Minnesota.
Trafalgar Square filled with protesters demanding justice for Alex Pretti while opposing Farage.
When state violence goes unchecked, the world notices.
Solidarity doesn’t stop at borders. 🇬🇧
Issue 114 is now online. Some super fine fiction from England (Nicholas Royle, Jonathan Taylor); Scotland (Des Dillon) and the US. (Benjamin Clabault). Quiz: Pop Music in Fiction, and more. Take a wee break from all the madness, and dive in.
Be Good.
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In this story, set during the period of Franco, the father of a family in the Basque Country decides that the family must now only speak Basque. The problem: their language has always been Spanish.
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Sirât: Ravers making their way through the harsh Saharan desert , along with a father (and his son) looking for his daughter. It’s a punch in the gut to watch, but an amazing film with a mesmerizing soundtrack. My pick for best film of the year.
Enjoy this good story in which a neglected young boy is pulled awake by his beer-fueled father and the father’s friend to go on a boat trip where the drinking continues.
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Don't miss this super story by @MarcoKaye of an ex-alcoholic salesman as he travels to a Walmart sales conference in Arkansas where his Uber driver becomes entangled in his life in a most curious way.
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Book Review: America, América by @GregGrandin
You will never view the Americas in quite the same way.
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Book review: The Continental Divide, Stories
Highly recommended
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Set in Western Herzegovina in the 90s, here you get a glimpse of an American teen on a visit to her ancestral country where the youth culture is dramatically different from her own. Discover the difference!
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Issue 113 is now online. We have a great line-up with stories by Moira McCavana, Marco Kaye, Bergita Bugarija and Daniel Ditty, with a range of settings from the Basque Country to Western Herzegovina to Arkansas and the Susquehanna River in the US.
