The Madrid Review

11/06/2026

'Migrant Women Writers and the Short Story in North America' explores short fiction by migrant women writers in Canada and the United States from 1980 to 2020, including Jhumpa Lahiri, Edwidge Danticat, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Jamaica Kincaid, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, and Shani Mootoo, amongst many others.

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11/06/2026

11/06/2026

El escritor recomienda un poemario clave para entender la posguerra, la memoria y los silencios de una época.

10/06/2026

We explore how Madrid's biggest literary festival stumbled into a geopolitical minefield this week.

By James Hartley

10/06/2026

https://open.substack.com/pub/themadridreview/p/jayne-marshall-appointed-editor-of?r=2k593n&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

We are delighted to announce that Jayne Marshall has been appointed Editor of The Madrid Review.

10/06/2026

Today at the Feria del Libro — don't miss Karina Sainz Borgo
Karina Sainz Borgo was born in Caracas in 1982 and has lived in Madrid since 2006, working as a journalist and columnist for ABC while building one of the most distinctive voices in contemporary Latin American literature.
Her debut novel 'La hija de la española' is a ferocious, lyrical account of a woman surviving political collapse in Venezuela and has been translated into more than twenty languages.
Her new novel, 'Nazarena' (Alfaguara, 2026), is a family saga set in a house where eight sisters live under the shadow of a devastated mother. It's been described by critics as having echoes of Rulfo, García Márque and Lorca, and praised by the New York Times for prose as "tense and complex as Coetzee."
She'll be signing at the Feria del Libro de Madrid today, Wednesday 10 June, from 19:00 to 21:00 at Caseta 186, Olavide Bar de Libros (Bloque 26A) - one of Madrid's best literary spaces and the perfect setting.
Feria del Libro de Madrid Alfaguara ABC.es

05/06/2026

The Pope is in Madrid this weekend. Before the crowds descend on Cibeles, find out about the 1,600-year-old book that made him who he is — and everything you need to know about attending the events, Metro closures and road chaos. On The Madrid Review Substack today. Link in Stories.

As the pope comes to Madrid for the weekend, we look at the book at the heart of a papal visit. Plus the low down on what's going on and where. By James Hartley.