Despite its massive commercialization, the world of football has never been about making a profit.
Sebastiaan Faber
Sebastiaan Faber is Professor of Hispanic Studies at Oberlin College. He is the author of Exile and Cultural Hegemony (Vanderbilt University Press, 2002), Anglo-American Hispanists and the Spanish Civil War (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008), and Memory Battles of the Spanish Civil War (Vanderbilt University Press, 2018). He writes about literature and politics in the US and Spanish media, including The Nation and CTXT: Contexto y Acción. (Author photograph by Jenn Manna) 
Neruda’s Ghosts
Pablo Neruda’s only daughter, Malva Marina, was born in Madrid, in August 1934, and died a little over eight years later, in Nazi-occupied Holland, from the complications of hydrocephaly. She hadn’t ...
Catalonia Is Real. And Yet…
La gran ilusión is an original and penetrating take on the last decade of mounting tensions between Catalonia and Spain, tensions that have now culminated in Spain’s deepest political crisis since …
The Basque Novel Comes of Age
Ramon Saizarbitoria’s Martutene, hailed as the best novel ever written in Basque and now available in English translation, is, among other things, a moving ...
Politics and Play in Spain Today
Juan José Millás’s Desde la sombra (From the Shadow) is a short novel, not yet translated into English, about alienation, loneliness, voyeurism, and the power of ...