Citario Conrad
Critical perspectives that explore the ethics, moral enigma and poetics of travel in the work of the great Polish-British writer.
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Nicea, Seventeen Centuries
A review of ancient Arianism and its contemporary echo through the history of the Council of Nicaea and the figure of Rufinus.
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Dietary for Out-of-Date Beings II
Diets and food aversions of certain outdated individuals.
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I Am Maximilien Robespierre, They Call Me Incorruptible
An introspective account where Robespierre justifies his rise and fall by linking the obsessive pursuit of republican virtue to the inevitable necessity of the Terror.
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Citario Dostoevsky
On the anniversary of the birth of the great Russian writer, these quotes evoke the author who, like a modern Dante, transformed the destiny of literature in the century of the novel par excellence.
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Because of your Love, the Air Hurts Me
A mentor dissuades an aspiring poet from writing, extolling Lorca and reading with AI as a superior alternative to creative vanity.
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Berliozianas: ‘Clair de Lune’ (comp. c. 1890, pub. 1905)
An exquisite and dangerous emotional trap that, under an apparent simplicity, manipulates the listener’s melancholy.
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What shouldn’t happen happens in Compostela and Teniente Rey
Carlos Luis changes his routine one morning and an accident leads him to meditate, from the quiet of the hospital, on chance, causality, and the inevitability of events.