Hunger, Body, and Desire
Notes on ‘El hombre, la hembra y el hambre’, by Daína Chaviano.
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Mañach and the Last Criollos
A reading of Mañach as a disturbing figure of republican nostalgia, criollo Cubanness, and lost Havana.
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The Construction of the Intellectual Myth
Notes on ‘José Lezama Lima: Una biografía. Años de formación (1910–1939)’
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A chat noir aux États-Unis
A poetics of estrangement turns racial experience into coded beauty, formal anxiety, and existential hieroglyph.
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Reason Without a Body
Belyaev explores ethical dilemmas about cerebral survival, questioning scientific reason when detached from all human responsibility.
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Being Cholo in Peru: On Raúl Soto’s ‘NosOtros, los cholos’
Peruvian choledad as family memory, critical consciousness, and possible national utopia.
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Of Exiles and Obituaries: A New Book by Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo
Chronicles and obituaries that explore exile, memory, and criticism of the Castro regime, bringing forgotten figures and Cuban ideological tensions back into the spotlight.
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‘El año del cordero’, a novel by Xavier Carbonell
An author discovers a nonexistent novel that he himself wrote.
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A Private Investigation
Holmberg blends crime fiction and science in a private investigation that reveals the limits of knowledge, challenging morality, identity, and modern rationality.
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Three Journeys
Readings: Woolf explores death and emerging consciousness; Caraco exudes filial nihilism; Joyce portrays the moral and everyday paralysis of Dublin.