Book Fair 2025: Today's Recommended Books, May 10

The last weekend of the Fair begins and at the Clarín / Ñ cultural space at 3 pm, the actresses and directors Paula and María Marull, authors of Lo que el río hace, La pilarcita and Yo no duermo la siesta, will be interviewed by Mercedes Méndez. At 4 pm, Luciano Lamberti and Mariana Eva Pérez will talk about Ghosts, from the dictatorship to the present day with Dalia Ber. At 5 pm, the topic will be journalism and artificial intelligence ; at 6:30 pm, María Eugenia Duffard, Luciana Geuna, and Nicolás Wiñazki will analyze The journalistic legacy of Jorge Lanata and at 7 pm in the Ernesto Sábato room, the Clarín Prize-winning novel , If you felt the major structures under your feet , by Roberto Chuit Roganovich, will be presented, with the participation of Ricardo Romero, Juan Mattio and Matilde Sánchez.
File photo from September 26, 2022, of Argentine journalist Jorge Lanata. EFE/Juan Ignacio Roncoroni FILE
At 1 p.m., the Department of Biodiversity and Experimental Biology, Exactas-UBA, will deploy a demonstration station without experiments on Fungi to the Rescue and another on Dangerous Spiders and Scorpions of Argentina in Zona Explora.
At 3 p.m., the invitation is this: "Do you dare to solve a police case? María Ángela Maraschi, author of The Cases of Inspector Gatti , invites boys and girls to become detectives, connect the clues, and solve a never-before-seen case involving the most famous inspector in the Land of Enchantment, the great Silvestre Gatti." For boys and girls ages 5 to 9 in the Children's Zone.
At 4 p.m., academic Daniel Link returns to lecture on kitsch, camp, and queerness, and to address the readers who demand representation everywhere. The topic will be Against Representation: Emilia Pérez Doesn't Exist in the Pride and Prejudice Room. Also at that time, Florencia Canale will present her latest novel , The Crusade, in the Tulio Halperín Donghi Room.
Daniel Link. Photo: Martín Bonetto.
Half an hour later, "How much science is in science fiction?" is the question economist Walter Sosa Escudero will seek to answer by analyzing the intersections between science and fiction throughout the history of literature in the Zona Futuro room.
Agustina Bazterrica. Photo: Clarín archive.
At 5:30 p.m., Agustina Bazterrica will present her novel "Las Indignas" with Sonia Budassi in the Julio Cortázar Room; while in the José Hernández Room, writer Elísabet Benavent will review her entire body of work for her numerous readers.
At 6 p.m., there's a moment for nostalgia, with a conversation about the book A Dream Made in Argentina: The Rise and Fall of Pumper Nic , by journalist Solange Levinton, in the Zona Futuro room.
Bestselling author Paloma Sánchez-Garnica (center), accompanied by King Felipe (2nd from left) and Queen Letizia (2nd from right) and finalist Beatriz Serrano (right), poses with the 73rd Planeta Prize. EFE/Andreu Dalmau
And two activities at 7 p.m. to round out the day: Pope Francis, Borges, and Literature, with Luis García Montero in the Victoria Ocampo Room; and Paloma Sánchez Garnica, winner of the 2025 Planeta Prize, will present her novel Victoria in the Carlos Gorostiza Room.
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