Nine of today's most celebrated Hispanic writers reveal themselves and their concerns, and how the latter are reflected in their work. The writers are Ricardo Piglia, Antonio Munoz Molina, Juan Jose Millas, Jose Maria Merino, Enrique Vila-Matas, Quim Monzo, Cristina Fernandez Cubas, Pedro Zarraluki and Ray Loriga. The interviews allow readers closer personal acquaintance with the subjects, their fiction and their cultural circumstances, in the process touching on major intellectual issues of today - the definition of reality, the role of art and the challenge of otherness. Each conversation...

The contributors ask the following questions:

- What are the different rhetorical strategies employed by writers, artists, filmmakers, and activists to react to the degradation of life and climate change?
- How are urban movements using environmental issues to resist corporate privatization of the commons?
- What is the shape of Spanish debates on reproductive rights and biotechnology?
- What is the symbolic significance of the bullfighting debate and other human/animal issues in today's political turmoil in Spain?

Hispanic Issues Series
Nicholas Spadaccini,...

The contributors ask the following questions:

- What are the different rhetorical strategies employed by writers, artists, filmmakers, and activists to react to the degradation of life and climate change?
- How are urban movements using environmental issues to resist corporate privatization of the commons?
- What is the shape of Spanish debates on reproductive rights and biotechnology?
- What is the symbolic significance of the bullfighting debate and other human/animal issues in today's political turmoil in Spain?

Hispanic Issues Series
Nicholas Spadaccini,...