Editorial VAP: «We do not come to tell ourselves, “We come to tell the others”
We relaunched the project with the idea of offering honest stories, without ideological trenches, to readers willing to disagree
Books
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The day a king ate at my house and we talked about travel literature and ways to die
Sometimes the route begins in a book
The old books already announced it: Trump, networks, fake news…
Steinbeck, Peace, Dostoevsky, Pasolini... They already wrote above all this
VAP sets sail again
We don't want to take selfies, we want to create a community of those who photograph the other and the others
The old book "cemeteries" of Mexico City
When the teenage uncle Nicolas, almost 90 years, started buying used books by Tepito, one of the most marginal neighborhoods in Mexico City, and his mother asked him one morning what he planned to do with so much paper accumulated between the narrow walls of his house, did not imagine that almost 100 años después su familia acumularía millones de obras de segunda mano en "cementerios" alive where manuscripts wait for decades, spilled on the floor or accumulated on huge shelves, someone give them life
History and McDonald's
Last week I wrote about battlefields and, a little side, reffering me to the field of Gettysburg, wandering through which I walked a cold morning in March this year. The fierce fighting on 1 the 3 July 1863 on the outskirts of this small town in Pennsylvania ...
The "poetry" of the battlefields
Graham Greene wrote that "over time, even the battlefields seem poetic places ". I've seen a few in the course of my travels, for historical inquiries inevitably push me towards them.
