Professor Angel Dust was a key figure in the Catalan nightclub scene of the 1990s. He recounts how he became entangled in ‘a sinister plot,’ ending up in prison surrounded by drug traffickers and murderers
The most controversial and cryptic of the Beat writers, the author was an unrepentant, legendary junkie (and, allegedly, an accidental killer). Today, there is renewed interest in his books, at a time when separating the work from the novelist is becoming increasingly difficult
The United States is willing to dismantle one of the pillars of the postwar world order: the inviolability of international borders
The writer, who has published a new novel after the success of ‘Shuggie Bain,’ doesn’t believe that the US will improve after Trump’s departure. ‘He has already sown the seeds of hatred,’ he says
The Portuguese author writes compulsively, but he lets his manuscripts sit in a drawer for years. Translated into 70 languages, Saramago once said of him: ‘It’s not natural to write so well. You feel like punching the guy. They’ll give him the Nobel Prize for sure’
The Irish star of ‘Sherlock’ and ‘All of Us Strangers’ talks to EL PAÍS about playing the meteorologist behind the Normandy landings in ‘Pressure’
President Claudia Sheinbaum is celebrating a reduction in homicides of over 50%. However, experts urge caution when looking at the statistics, and demand that more attention be paid to the big picture
EL PAÍS spoke with a dozen migrants from Cuba, Honduras, Brazil and Colombia who were sent by the US to Africa and remain in a legal limbo with scant medical assistance and no knowledge of what will happen to them