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The End of the Universe as Experience

An unsettling novel, one of the most perfect and influential works ever written.

Three voices from an island that has disappeared from the collective imagination, or perhaps it only survives in that imagination.

Notes on ‘Virgen de Guadalupe’, by Roger Santiváñez.

Beauty is born where form, power, and image are consumed in a single intensity.

A Reading of ‘The Sentimental Memoirs of João Miramar’, by Oswald de Andrade.

Notes on ‘El hombre, la hembra y el hambre’, by Daína Chaviano.

A reading of Mañach as a disturbing figure of republican nostalgia, criollo Cubanness, and lost Havana.

Notes on ‘José Lezama Lima: Una biografía. Años de formación (1910–1939)’

Belyaev explores ethical dilemmas about cerebral survival, questioning scientific reason when detached from all human responsibility.

Peruvian choledad as family memory, critical consciousness, and possible national utopia.