Prose from the Wunderkammer II: ‘Ulysses’ (Limited Editions Club, 1935)
A volume that embodies a sublime deception: the clash between Joyce’s avant-garde and the mythical silence of Matisse, who illustrated ‘Ulysses’ without reading it.
Citario Conrad
Critical perspectives that explore the ethics, moral enigma and poetics of travel in the work of the great Polish-British writer.
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.
Bouquiphiles
Caverns
Personal reflections on reading in Mad Men, the iconography of writers with libraries, and a friend's legendary hidden library in the nineties.
Loose Pages
Dietary for Out-of-Date Beings II
Diets and food aversions of certain outdated individuals.
Loose Pages
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.
Mañach, a Philosophy at 76 Degrees Fahrenheit
November 19, 2025
¿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 ...
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Flesh and Blood Essay (3)
July 20, 2025
From the guillotine to text: the fashion of cutting as symbolic and cultural violence.
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Mañach’s New Apotheosis
November 3, 2025
Editorial Casa Vacía rescues Mañach from the commonplace and brings him up to date.
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Only God is Enough
May 1, 2025
In 1643, while Louis XIV plays and Torricelli presents the barometer, eight libertines in Paris debate faith, reason, and heresy in a lively salon.
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A Venice of Shadows
April 18, 2025
Venice has been Tintoretto for me. And Tintoretto is the painter of writers, as Mary McCarthy said.
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