Whose Story is it? Or the Return of an Old Literary Dilemma
The controversy surrounding Guerriero and Netflix reopens the dilemma of who a story belongs to: those who live it, those who write it, or those who disseminate it.
Bookspel
Bookspel
Witches, Prophecies, and the Apocalyptic Merch Machine
Apocalyptic feminism as a symbolic and marketable product.
Bookspel
Nobel Prize in Literature for Krasznahorkai
Nobel Prize in Literature (2025) to László Krasznahorkai.
Bookspel
When Reading Is a Drama
The debate over whether reading makes us morally superior reveals that books are a critical tool, not a guarantee of virtue, in an era dominated by social media.
Bookspel
The Road of Salt and Lies
In Raynor Winn’s memoir ‘The Salt Path’ about her eviction and her husband’s illness, accusing publisher Penguin of negligence in fact-checking.
Bookspel
The Insurrection of the Azzurri Bookshelves
The Italian movement Svuota la vetrina consists of emptying bookshop windows by buying all their books, an act of cultural support that some criticize as mere ostentation.
Bookspel
Bloomsday: An Irish Comedy in Eighteen Hours
Is Bloomsday the annual celebration where thousands of people pretend to have read ‘Ulysses’ in an eccentric display of scholarly masochism?
Bookspel
The Laughter of History and the Ego of Intellectuals
Artists and intellectuals: moral guides?
Bookspel
Awards, Crimes, and other Forms of Iberian Self-celebration
Spanish literature self-celebrates with irony, awards, and historical echoes.
Bookspel
The polygamous reader: bigamy and libraries in rural Florida
Henry Betsey Jr., a Floridian passionate about 19th-century literature, maintained three simultaneous marriages and vast libraries in each home until his bigamy was uncovered.