The Bonfire as Literary Criticism
The burning of books as an identity ritual, a censorious gesture, and an involuntary parody of cultural criticism.
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A Brief Treatise on the Aena Million
The emergence of the Aena Prize has sparked a curious phenomenon: the appearance of experts in literary prizes
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A Literary Dictionary for Customs Officers (Without Rousseau)
Cuban literature is reduced to a farcical digital customs procedure.
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Crime and Spoilers in the Snow
An Antarctic scientist attacks his colleague for spoiling book endings, elevating the “spoiler” to the level of a Dostoevskian tragedy.
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Manual for Quitting Writing
Literary paradox: only a few make a living from writing, but anyone can publish, in a charming absurdity.
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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.
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2025 Cervantes Prize: The Art of Not Disturbing
Institutional mediocrity and a lack of literary risk-taking in the choice of the Cervantes Prize symbolize the cultural domestication of the award.
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Witches, Prophecies, and the Apocalyptic Merch Machine
Apocalyptic feminism as a symbolic and marketable product.
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The Million-Euro Prize or How the Premio Planeta Lost the Novel and Won Prime Time
If the twentieth century believed in the solitary genius, the twenty-first prefers the television author. And the Planeta is a faithful mirror of the market.