Caverns
Personal reflections on reading in Mad Men, the iconography of writers with libraries, and a friend’s legendary hidden library in the nineties.
Bouquiphiles
Libraries
Book Reviews
The Library in Flames
A book about a library fire opens this reflection on the transformation and challenges of public libraries.
Bouquiphiles
My Library of Alexandria
The impossible library: memories of a reading fever in Santiago, Chile.
Bouquiphiles
The Old Libraries Are Falling Apart
The disintegration of libraries in Havana as a symptom of other things in the country.
Bouquiphiles
Fascination with the Abyss. Notes on the Act of Reading II (Final)
The library is a refuge for unfulfilled desires, renewed readings, and losses due to exile, intertwining literary ambition, writerly vanity, and cultural fragility.
Bouquiphiles
Fascination with the Abyss. Notes on the Act of Reading I
The library, that labyrinth of knowledge and aesthetic pleasure, reflects the insatiable curiosity and chaotic order of a life devoted to reading.
Bouquiphiles
Fragmented Libraries
The personal library as a portable and sentimental homeland, especially for the displaced writer who carries his books and objects like fragments of identity.
Bouquiphiles
Sketch for a Bibliophile Portrait of José Martí
Martí wrote with what he read. His ever-incomplete library stood as a fugitive writing.
Bookspel
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.