Cervantes -- an unclaimed brilliance
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This is the city where Miguel de Cervantes did most of his writing, published "Don Quixote," died and was buried.
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Comment is free: Timothy Garton Ash: Spain struggles to find new words while Kosovo seeks a song of its own. La Marseillaise shows us how it's really done
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A little-known festival turns Charles Darwin's birthday into an international tribute to the glories of scientific thought. By Wired News staff.
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Cold, dark shadows cast by stone buildings that have stood for hundreds of years are everywhere in this corner of the world where history is measured in centuries, not decades. From out of these shadows have come legendary sagas of despair and tragedy, one of which inspired William Shakespeare.
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'Pan's Labyrinth' is a transcendent film celebrating the imagination's power to triumph over cruelty and evil.
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Revolutionary or unreadable? The long, strange afterlife of David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest
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The Man and His Art rescues a nearly forgotten genius from obscurity
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Battuta facilmente la britannica Baltacha
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One hundred and fifty years on, the Lincoln-Douglas debates enjoy the dubious status of myth. This searching and illuminating book does the great service of bringing them back down to earth.
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Travel: Blogger and resident Robert Wight uncovers some of the Argentinian capital's hidden architectural gems
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Arts & entertainment: Some of the most radical buildings ever made owe their existence to Cecil Balmond. Jonathan Glancey salutes the engineer who defies belief.
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The first case of Spanish infuenza is reported. Unfortunately, it won't be the last. Compiled by Tony Long.
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We go beyond the realm of ordinary earthly experience and explore the truly great accomplishments of one Alan Roger Hinman in alternative time lines. Commentary by Lore Sj&#246;berg.
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Perhaps no director has dramatized revolution with as much vigor and intelligence as Gillo Pontecorvo, now 84, who is currently experiencing an unexpected and gratifying revival.
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Those of us who've been posting at Kuro5hin for some years are aware that this site serves as one of the foremost intellectual fora of the present day. What may come as a surprise is that a number of academics recognize that fact, and cite Kuro5hin in their journal articles, conference proceedings, and book chapters.  Here I survey some of the more interesting ones I've come across.
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Nel monastero di Los Jeronimos.Barroso: sede significativa
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By Chris Sullivan  I had always been entranced by the idea of flamenco. The famously impassioned music. The impossibly raven-haired ladies. The glorious macho posturing of the men, so surly and so proud.