The LLM and the Sharpness of Meaning
LLMs do not threaten literature through intelligence, but through their ability to multiply mediocrity until meaning becomes invisible.
K: A Rare and Comical Dread
Kafka's tragicomic irony as a literary invention, linked to Virgilio Piñera, Baudelaire, and modern European criticism.
Essays
Between Geopolitics and “Imperial Malaise”
Realistic geopolitics, ideological exhaustion, and Spanish American unease in the face of contemporary global power realignments.
Book Reviews
Perverting Reality
‘Malincuor’ confirms a fragmentary poetics where memory, imagination, and language pervert reality to make it more true.
Essays
Andrés Trapiello and the Novel of Diary-Writing
Trapiello's diary writing elevated to a great novel in progress, masterfully blending truth, fiction, literary criticism, and everyday life with narrative skill.
Essays
Gestures Outside History. The Poetry of Leonel Rugama
Non-politicized gestures that fracture militant poetry and propose non-sacrificial community wanderings.
Book Reviews
Dante as Seen by Boccaccio
A seminal work in which Boccaccio constructs a critical and moral biography of Dante, articulating homage, literary history, and humanism.
Essays
Cartographies of the Body: Visual Territories
Ivonne Ferrer explores the body as hybrid cartography, ontological provocation, and resistance to the ephemeral.
Loose Pages
Citario of La Habana
Havana cited as a fragmented city: violence, ruin, desire, memory, politics, verbal survival.
Book Reviews
Reading to Feel: Breath, Memory, and Joan Didion’s ‘Notes to John’
We read not to remember, but to feel: to remain suspended in that intimate proof that something—whether in the writer or the reader—is still breathing.
Essays
One could say of Salinger
Salinger chose silence and squalor as an aesthetic and moral response in the aftermath of the war and the end of innocence.
Loose Pages
Impressions of Amsterdam
A city of restrained order, interiors, and disciplined melancholy.
The Others in Ceronetti’s Eye (I)
September 14, 2025
A sort of dictionary of famous lives, written with the ink of one of the most unique contemporary Italian writers.
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A Pulitzer by Elimination
May 14, 2025
‘James’, by Percival Everett, won the Pulitzer by default, after the jury was unable to choose between three novels by female authors.
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The Way of St. James
July 23, 2025
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. ...
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The Unemployed Reader’s Wet Dream
May 7, 2025
Two years have passed since Luna Miguel's performance of reading in silence for 48 hours, turning reading into a challenge to banality.
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Bette Davis divorced for reading too much
April 28, 2025
Bette Davis was divorced in 1938 by her husband Harmon O. Nelson, who argued that "she reads too much,” prioritizing her library and career over ...
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The History of Slavery and the Slavery of History (3 and final)
July 1, 2025
Sepúlveda and De las Casas debated in Valladolid the justice of the war against the Indians, contrasting humanistic and theological views on humanity and conquest. ...
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