Words of the Year
We produce more language than ever, but meaning is quietly slipping away in the age of AI.
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Citario Carpentier
Different voices reread, debate, or reassess the great Cuban novelist, the possessor of a deeply contradictory personality—perhaps more so than many are willing to admit.
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The Eye of the Cyclops
Victoriano Masdéu keeps valuable objects belonging to exiled friends in a secret room, sharing it with the poet Luna until his death, a prisoner of nostalgia.
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Citario Lezama
Various outside voices have sought to read, discuss, or surround him, and in doing so have constructed an indirect portrait: Lezama seen through the sum of his echoes, controversies, and dazzling moments.
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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Dietary for Out-of-Date Beings II
Diets and food aversions of certain outdated individuals.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.