Uncertainty, the one thing that is constant between us
A splendid assault by Galdós on a hopelessly corrupted party system.
Category: Theology
Historians who make stuff up, novelists who can’t novelise
El misteri de l’assassinat del bisbe de Barcelona by Ponç Feliu and Miquel Mir
The 1903 Paris-Madrid race that got away
A remarkable feat of memory from Arturo Barea’s autobiography.
A curious Spanish, Trafalgar-era, overshot waterwheel
Someone please explain to me how it works.
Hot news from the executors of Messrs Sapir & Whorf
A brief history of zoological shame
Featuring a Spanish view of the Saxons.
Crisis, what crisis?
Rodolfo de Angelis’ great 1930s hit explains how to get ourselves out of the mess we’ve got ourselves into.
Don’t plagiarise from the poor
Introducing Secular thought, an ancient journal of the Canadian heathen.
I am the way, but which way?
Revealed, the identity of the horny apparition in the story of St Benedict, the blackbird, and the nettles
A 19th century Roman historian says she’s from the Roman Merula (blackbird) clan.
