12 essential voices of 2024

Patrick Radden Keefe: “Trying to hold the powerful to account is one of the jobs of journalism”

Writer and journalist Patrick Radden Keefe's underscores the importance of relevant, attractive, and enduring storytelling in journalism and reflects on non-fiction literature. Radden Keefe argues that narrative is a tool for conveying complex truths, challenging the powerful and capturing ...

Ottessa Moshfegh: "When we lie to ourselves, we are writing a new story"

Ottessa Moshfegh stands out as one of the most distinctive and insightful American writers of her generation. Her short stories and novels prompt us to contemplate the human condition. We delve deeper into Moshfegh’s writing, exploring how she perceives fiction and truth, her use of language ...

Eliane Brum: “The climate collapse is the responsibility of a minority"

Eliane Brum is a journalist and writer, and one of the leading voices in exploring the environmental and political struggles of the Amazon. Brum highlights how a powerful and predatory minority is destroying the rainforest and violating the rights of indigenous peoples and communities along ...

Yuk Hui: “We are living in a gigantic technological system”

We talk to the philosopher Yuk Hui about the shift from the industrial to the cybernetic age, the uselessness of our current-day dystopian discourses and the need to encourage a diversity of technological thinkings able to combat the homogenisation of capitalism. Read the full article

Zadie Smith and Míriam Cano

Worn cloth and stolen truths

The acclaimed British writer Zadie Smith speaks with the translator Míriam Cano about the ways in which lies and imposture influence the functioning of society.

Txai Suruí

Postponing the End of the World

The activist and youth leader Txai Suruí speaks with the journalist and writer Eliane Brum about the struggle of young people who are trying to combat the climate crisis in Brazil, and about the resistance of Indigenous communities against extractivism, deforestation, enormous fires, and about bodies that make it possible to postpone the end of the world.

Herta Müller and Cecilia Dreymüller

Freeing the word

Nobel Literature laureate Herta Müller and translator Cecilia Dreymüller speak about Europe’s present and how to place the word at the heart of things in order to keep making possible a future of freedom and peace.

Nathan Thrall

Anatomy of Occupation

Journalist and writer Nathan Thrall, awarded Pulitzer Prize winner 2024, talks with the journalist Albert Elfa, correspondent in Jerusalem for six years, about the last decades of the occupation of Palestine and its impact on the lives of the population in the wake of the publication of A Day i...

Clara Serra and Elena Martín

Insubordinate desire

In this conversation moderated by the journalist Anna Pazos, the philosopher Clara Serra and filmmaker Elena Martín, contrast the tensions and ambivalences of desire faced with attempts to regulate it.

Wajdi Mouawad and Oriol Broggi

Flying with wounded wings

In this session moderated by cultural journalist Laura Serra, the playwright Wajdi Mouawad and director Oriol Broggi speak about theatre as an experience of healing and emancipation in a society where violence is present every day.

William Kentridge and Julian Barnes

The artist William Kentridge and the writer Julian Barnes talk about their creative universes based on their shared interest in art, literature and music.

A.M. Homes

Alienation in America

The author A.M. Homes, one of the great voices in US fiction, reflects on power, freedom and American identity following the publication of her latest novel, The Unfolding (Viking, 2022).