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Home Away From Home: What to Read and Watch This Month, According to Jessica Zafra

JZ turns to a Spanish novelist, poetry and familiar popcorn flicks during a monthlong sojourn in Spain.

A Heart So White by Javier MariasIt took me years to get through Marias’s digressive, meandering styles and finish one of his novels, but now that I know how they work, I love them. One of his best novels, about gestures and ...

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Spanish Films, Spies and Superheroes: What to Read and Watch This Month According to Jessica Zafra

Our resident devourer of pop culture has Almodovar and Spanish novelists on her mind this month.

I Feel Bad About My Neck by Nora EphronAssymetry by Lisa HallidayThis novel about a young writer who has an affair with a much, much older writer who is expected to win the Nobel Prize, by a writer who had an affair ...