Books win (very rarely)
I always thought Rushdie would not survive, but the one who issued the fatwa ended up dying first.
Bouquiphiles
Essays
The Precarious Lives of Natalia Ginzburg
Memory sustains an ethics of precariousness, where family, history, and mourning reveal their exposure.
Loose Pages
Memory Weighs More
A tribute to José Luis García, a solitary writer whose literature transforms memory, exile, and authority into something enduring.
Book Reviews
Three Journeys
Readings: Woolf explores death and emerging consciousness; Caraco exudes filial nihilism; Joyce portrays the moral and everyday paralysis of Dublin.
Essays
Bloodshot Eyes
In the annals of Cuban poetry, the work of Ángel Escobar is that point in the void that you feel narrowing, that flows.
Essays
Andrés Trapiello and the Novel of Diary-Writing
Trapiello’s diary writing elevated to a great novel in progress, masterfully blending truth, fiction, literary criticism, and everyday life with narrative skill.
Essays
One could say of Salinger
Salinger chose silence and squalor as an aesthetic and moral response in the aftermath of the war and the end of innocence.
Bouquiphiles
Caverns
Personal reflections on reading in Mad Men, the iconography of writers with libraries, and a friend’s legendary hidden library in the nineties.
Bouquiphiles
Moves
About traveling with books, especially when they are like fragments of a writer’s life, chapters of a biography whose meaning matters only to oneself.
Bouquiphiles
Collisions
A melancholic song to the absence of Spanish books in the United States, secondhand bookstores, and the loss of words in bilingual collisions.