heriotzak

josu waliño

You’re in a hospital bed, surrounded by tubes and apparatus, and death comes to visit you each night. If you want to go with him, all you have to do is hold his hand and get out of the bed. But if you only want the visitor to go back the way he came, you have to do something. And that something is telling stories. That’s what this book’s main character does. Like in Scheherazade’s One Thousand and One Nights, a new day beats the night thanks to the tales. And, in this case, death wants to carry on listening to the stories because he knows that, in any case, he always wins in the end.

zamaontzia

iñigo aranbarri

Zamaontzia is the book’s name. It seems to us it’s more of a tugboat than a book. Basque literature’s tugboat, in fact. More than anything else, it seems Aranbarri is way ahead and going strong. His writing makes full use of both popular and high- brow language. One can’t be understood without the other. In a completely natural way. It isn’t a book written for wise people, experts or pedants. Quite the opposite. The writing’s waves suddenly arrive and soak us, reflecting the relationships between human beings. The book’s like a strong wind, the waves arrive one after another and soak us to the skin. Loneliness, cowardliness, laziness...to get over these, shared work which comes from deep inside. It tugs us further forward. Indispensable.

logicomix

Apostolos Doxiadis, Christos Papadimitriou, Alecos Papadatos

Would you read comics written by mathematical philosophers reflecting on logic? Well, we’re going to recommend you change your mind. This comic shows us the agreements and disagreements between thinkers and the ups and downs in the history of logic, taking the mathematician and thinker Bertrand Russel as its central subject. It was a great challenge for the creators, Apostolos Doxiadis, Christos Papadimitriou and Alecos Papadatos , but they’ve managed to create a comic which is as entertaining as it is profound.

pez fanzine

mon magan

A bloke called Mon Magan brings out what he calls a fanzine’s fanzine. Each number is themed. He puts together collections of fanzines and other communication artefacts about a particular subject. The lastest one is about Russian fanzines. You can download it and print it, there’s open collaboration and it comes out every four months. Get hold of it or find it on the Net ... We’ve already told you enough.