What Is the Price of an Ideal?
Legrá’s ‘The Price of an Ideal’ shows how tyranny turns ideals into suffering and silence.
Book Reviews
Memory
Book Reviews
About ‘Venecia inactual’
A literary mosaic that explores Venice through its layers of time and memory.
Book Reviews
Making Kolkhoz for the Last Time
A book that intertwines family grief, Georgian memory, and historical reflection on war and the decline of civilization.
Book Reviews
‘Orden doméstico’, by Sylvina Bach: Music That Fades Away
An exploration of memory, home, and fleeting time, preserving experiences as a gesture of love.
Inquisitions
The Girls Of Cinema And War
An Interview with Anne Greenberg, author of ‘The Incredible But True Life of Terry Guttmann: A Holocaust Survivor’s Memoir’.
Book Reviews
‘La costurera de Chanel’ or the Sinuous Disintegration
Wendy Guerra’s latest novel marks a departure from the ontological depth and political urgency of her earlier work, embracing a cinematic surface where memory, exile, and identity risk dissolving into aesthetic gesture.
Book Reviews
‘El ruido de los libros’: Writing and Scars
A book by Luis Felipe Rojas that intertwines memory, resistance, and literature, from his youth in Cuba to his exile, marked by scars and a passion for books.
Book Reviews
The Caribbean in Pieces: Listening to Condé, Reading Chassol
Resonances between Chassol’s music and Condé’s novel.
Loose Pages
The Way of St. James
Plagiarism, suicide, and posthumous fame trace an intimate map of cultural memory, from Marais to Lira, where life and death intersect with irony and chance.
Bouquiphiles
The Old Libraries Are Falling Apart
The disintegration of libraries in Havana as a symptom of other things in the country.