Issue number 21 of Lectora: revista de dones i textualitat is out. This volume includes a Dossier edited by Elena Losada Soler and Katarzyna Paszkiewicz, entitled Noir and Female. Women Writers of Crime Novels in the Iberian Peninsula, which gathers essays by José Colmeiro, Stewart King, Laia Manonelles Moner, Melissa M. Culver, Eva París-Huesca and Katarzyna Paszkiewicz. The Varia section includes essays on Simone Weil, Luisa Sigea de Velasco, María Zambrano and Esther Tusquets, amongst others, as well as the text "Cuentos sobre la diferencia sexual", the Spanish translation of a work by Hélène Cixous, translated by Mara Negrón and published in 1997 for the first and only time, which Marta Segarra has revised for this issue of the journal. The journal concludes with the usual sections on Reviews and Artistic creation.