Caverns
Personal reflections on reading in Mad Men, the iconography of writers with libraries, and a friend’s legendary hidden library in the nineties.
Dietary for Out-of-Date Beings II
Diets and food aversions of certain outdated individuals.
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. ...
Essays
The Paradox of Emperor Wen
True political stability does not arise from the ambition to rise, but from the deep understanding that the ruler acquires by descending into the reality ...
Inquisitions
Jonathan Edax Questionnaire: Leonardo Valencia
A variation on the “Proust Questionnaire.” For those who believe that reading is a sacred act, an incurable disease, or an elegant substitute for social ...
Essays
Castles of Shadows
Joel Núñez's refined abstraction in ‘Codified Reality’ contrasts with his tormented and grotesque expressionist period.
Bookspel
Whose Story is it? Or the Return of an Old Literary Dilemma
The controversy surrounding Guerriero and Netflix reopens the dilemma of who a story belongs to: those who live it, those who write it, or those ...
Book Reviews
Mañach, a Philosophy at 76 Degrees Fahrenheit
¿Una verdadera patria? commemorates and reexamines the relevance of Jorge Mañach's 1925 cultural critique, bringing together essays and documents that contrast that intellectual republic with ...
Essays
On the Art of Not Narrating (Miniature IX)
Criticism of Cuban linear narrative pedagogy, which ignores the avant-garde “art of not narrating” of Beckett, Borges, and Piñera.
Bouquiphiles
Moves
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.
Essays
The Chibás and Cuba
Tribute to Raúl Chibás, who links his heroic lineage with the tragic failed continuity of Cuban independence.
Loose Pages
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 ...
Loose Pages
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.
Unplugged (I)
August 5, 2025
Voices from the labyrinth, nocturnal echoes, and inner visions.
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Jonathan Edax Questionnaire: Waldo Pérez Cino
April 26, 2025
A variation on the “Proust Questionnaire.” For those who believe that reading is a sacred act, an incurable disease, or an elegant substitute for social ...
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Dietary for Out-of-Date Beings II
November 28, 2025
Diets and food aversions of certain outdated individuals.
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Javier Castro Flórez: “My consistency as a reader has shaped my need and pleasure as an editor”
July 9, 2025
Newcastle was born as an act of resistance and has become the personal project of its editor, Javier Castro Flórez, a passionate reader who seeks ...
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Stendhal at the Dawn of the Century
April 29, 2025
In this text rescued from Gastón Baquero, Stendhal invents prophecies that guide Proust, who merges his creations with reality.
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