Pan di Spagna?
A Sicilian says it ain’t.
Tag: spain
Mysterious Zaragoza nights
Between-wars texts about Zaragoza by Germans who appear never to have visited the place.
El gallito inglés / le coq anglais
Proud English cock, limp Latin hen: the binary opposition of English and Spanish fowls as a metaphor for the contrast between growing British military might and declining Spanish power.
The lurch and fall of the Almería coast
Excerpts from Juan Goytisolo and Ramón Fernández Palmeral, with an epitaph from George Orwell.
Roddy Doyle’s niggers of Europe explained
Don’t claim national origins for yourselves without very carefully considering the possible consequences.
The fretting nun’s secret
Kalebeul explained.
Complicated family joke
Displaying Mexican contempt for the metropolis.
Viaje a México
Our itinerary, and that of Polo Polo on his Viaje a España.