Garcia

“This book doesn’t work. It must be destroyed.” Not a one-star rant from the bowels of Amazon or Goodreads, but rather the verdict of Colombian Nobel laureate Gabriel García Márquez on his now posthumously published novel, Until August, a breezy romp brewed in his 70s and previously excerpted by the New Yorker in 1999 after he read from it on stage in Madrid with the late José Saramago.The erotic adventures of a middle-aged mother, it was originally conceived as a five-part narrative more than 600 pages long, but was set…

A novel written by the Colombian Nobel laureate Gabriel García Márquez in the last years of his life has been published – against his instruction that it be destroyed. Until August, written when the author had dementia, comes a decade after his death, on what would have been his 97th birthday. It has been described by his sons as “the fruits of one last effort to carry on creating against all odds”, and tells the story of a woman who makes a yearly pilgrimage to her mother’s grave on a Caribbean island, a trip that…

Once a year, in August, a middle-aged woman travels to a Caribbean island to lay flowers on her mother’s grave. On the eighth of these pilgrimages, without premeditation, she invites a man who – like her – is sitting alone in the hotel bar, to come up to her room. They make love. Their excitement is mirrored by turbulent weather: there is a thunderstorm and blue herons fly agitated over the lagoon. When she wakes in the morning the man has gone. She doesn’t even know his name. Afterwards, every year, she sets out to…

If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. While last year was supposed to mark the final tour for Dead and Company, the John Mayer-featuring band will now be kicking off a lengthy residency at Las Vegas’ Sphere in the Spring. While you can always tailgate and trade at Shakedown Streets in Vegas, there are other ways for Deadheads to pay tribute to the psychedelic gurus of rock. Dead and Company started in…

Colombian cocaine hippos, a Star Wars parody set in northern France and an unlikely father-daughter pairing of Stephen Fry and Lena Dunham all feature in an eclectic lineup at this year’s Berlin film festival, which was unveiled on Monday.The 74th edition of the 10-day Berlinale will open on 15 February with the world premiere of Small Things Like These, based on Irish author Clare Keegan’s bestselling historical novel. Adapted to the big screen by Enda Walsh, the film sees Cillian Murphy reuniting with Belgian director…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeGael Garcia Bernal has praised the art of acting for allowing performers to “explore the transgender we all have inside”.The 45-year-old Mexican actor recently starred in the Amazon Prime film Cassandro, a biographical film about the life of Saúl Armendáriz, a gay amateur wrestler who became an international sensation.In a new conversation with US entertainment publication Deadline,…

Two vocal powerhouses just joined forces on the 2023 Latin Grammys stage. Música Mexicana star Christian Nodal and Puerto Rican singer-songwriter Kany García took the stage at the awards show to perform their cross-genre collaboration “La Siguiente.” García started her performance alone, while surrounded by a band. Then, Nodál joined García onstage in an all-black outfit as the two showcased their vocal chops as they sang harmonized to the sweet song’s lyrics. “La Siguiente” was up up for Best Regional…

Kany García is the latest Latina star to bring her musical prowess to NPR’s Tiny Desk concert series. On Monday, NPR released a video of the Puerto Rican musician’s performance as she sang fan-favorites from her latest albums. The singer-songwriter opened her performance with the sweet “Para Siempre” before she transitioned into “Búscame,” which appears on her 2020 LP Mesa Para Dos and features Colombian star Carlos Vives. “There’s so many songs that I wrote about relationships, sadness, and all those kinds…

Then I realized I had been murdered.They looked for me in cafes, cemeteries and churches...but they did not find me.They never found me?No. They never found me. Actors from Tribuene Teatro in Madrid, playing La Casa de Bernarda Alba, written by Federico Garcia Lorca. (Criben/Shutterstock) - From The Fable And Round of the Three Friends, Poet in New York (1929) Few contemporary film buffs have watched Govind Nihalani’s Rukmavati Ki Haveli (1991). An unusual tragedy adapted from Spanish poet, artist and…

Local police and federal law enforcement believe the shooter who rampaged through a crowded Texas mall leaving at least nine people dead over the weekend regularly viewed and posted far right-wing extremist content on social media and espoused sympathy for Neo-Nazis.The shooter, identified as 33-year-old Mauricio Garcia, was wearing a patch on his chest with the insignia “RWDS,” which authorities believe stands for “Right-Wing Death Squad,” according to multiple reports and an FBI bulletin obtained by Rolling Stone. He…