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?
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Chronicle of Absurdity with Limited Plan
A half-hearted update on Cuba’s tragicomedy: sky-high internet tariffs, rogue dollars, and reggaeton artists jailed for existing, narrated from exile with coffee and guilt.
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The Laughter of History and the Ego of Intellectuals
Artists and intellectuals: moral guides?
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Leo XIV, a Jazz Genealogy
Leo XIV, with Creole roots in the Seventh Ward of New Orleans, is descended from Joseph Martinez and Louise Baquié, who were married in 1887. His lineage, with its Caribbean echoes, links the Vatican with the jazz of Preservation Hall.
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Rumena against Patriarchy, AI, and other Demons of the Present
Macedonian writer rails against patriarchy and voices some discontent with how Artificial Intelligence speaks to her.
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Awards, Crimes, and other Forms of Iberian Self-celebration
Spanish literature self-celebrates with irony, awards, and historical echoes.
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A Pulitzer by Elimination
‘James’, by Percival Everett, won the Pulitzer by default, after the jury was unable to choose between three novels by female authors.
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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.
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Byung-Chul Han, or how philosophy became an airport bestseller
Byung-Chul Han, winner of the Princess of Asturias Award, turns philosophy into a bestseller with existential aphorisms that seduce the urban creative class.
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The Unemployed Reader’s Wet Dream
Two years have passed since Luna Miguel’s performance of reading in silence for 48 hours, turning reading into a challenge to banality.