A volume that embodies a sublime deception: the clash between Joyce’s avant-garde and the mythical silence of Matisse, who illustrated ‘Ulysses’ without reading it.
Personal reflections on reading in Mad Men, the iconography of writers with libraries, and a friend’s legendary hidden library in the nineties.
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.
A melancholic song to the absence of Spanish books in the United States, secondhand bookstores, and the loss of words in bilingual collisions.
A vindication of the adult graphic novel, from Seth to Bechdel, criticizing didacticism and celebrating visual narrative eloquence.
The Qumran manuscripts reveal the life and beliefs of an ancient Jewish sect, with apocalyptic texts, strict rules, and mysteries that remain unsolved.
The impossible library: memories of a reading fever in Santiago, Chile.
The booktuber’s teaching style reveals the tension between superficial promotion of reading and the depth of complex novels in the digital age.
An elegant, twilight meditation on literature, which, already aware of its own mortality and limits in the face of pain, finds its dignity when it inhabits the ruins of language and memory.
The disintegration of libraries in Havana as a symptom of other things in the country.
