This volume collects the chronicles that Marcelo Cohen has written, over the last forty years, on Barcelona and Buenos Aires, and some of his best essays on his great passions: literature, music, translation and Maradona. Cohen offers us brilliant dissections on contemporary Argentine literature, on the convulsive political context of his country, portraits of the Plaza Real in Barcelona or the Madrid Retiro Station, in-depth readings of Joseph Roth or Zurita, reflections on the art of translation –of which Cohen is a master−, a theory of reading on the bus and the subway, and an attempt to understand climate change in the form of a diary.