The Madrid Review’s Substack
The Madrid Review, Jayne Marshall, Freshta JalalzaiA substack for Madrid-based litmag The Madrid Review. We publish first time and already-published authors in English and Spanish as well as interviews with well-known literary figures. We also love all things booky and arty and anything to do with Madrid.
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The Incomplete Portrait: Antonio Monegal on Fathers, Memory and Spain’s Unfinished Past
Family histories are full of holes, some leading to other worlds, some black and dark - where time and space stop - some concealing nice surprises. A father is remembered as a hero, a mother as a saint, a grandfather as a man who did what h...
A Scottish Imagination Comes to Madrid: Michael Pedersen at Verbena
There’s something relaxingly unruly about Michael Pedersen’s writing. His words resist staying in their allotted places, mingle somewhere between poetry and prose, tenderness and mischief, the everyday and the extraordinary. Tonight Madrid...
The Photobook Is Alive. Are We Still Looking?
In her book of essays, On Photography, Susan Sontag says that “industrial societies turn their citizens into image junkies.”
It’s a very difficult point to argue—images have become the way we process and connect to reality; whatever repres...
Bringing The Madrid Review to a Bookshop Near You
If you’ve been following our journey here at The Madrid Review, you’ll know that getting an independent, beautifully designed literary magazine out into the big wide world is a bit of a wild ride. Getting those physical copies from our base...
The Women Madrid’s Literary History Left Behind
From Emilia Pardo Bazán to the aristocratic authors of the seventeenth century, Madrid marks Día de las Escritoras with three talks about women, writing and cultural power. By James Hartley.
Madrid has a literary history that’s often told...
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The writers behind this newsletter.
The Madrid Review is an international literary and arts magazine based in Madrid, Spain. We connect the English and Spanish-speaking literary worlds. Paid content every Monday.
My debut essay collection was published in 2025 by Modern Odyssey Books. My second collection will be published by Ybernia in 2027. I hold a master's in creative writing (University of Oxford). I'm an editor + Editor of The Madrid Review.
Journalist. Afghanistan-born. Nearly two decades reporting on a war I lived inside. Columbia University journalism (politics cohort). I write long-form first-person narratives from inside the war, on survival and the human cost of conflict.
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