‘Here in this Spring’: Introduction
Foreword to ‘Aquí en esta primavera (Antología de juventud)’ by Dylan Thomas (Casa Vacía Publishing House, 2025).
Proust’s Youth
A youth marked by maternal devotion, passions and epiphany in everyday beauty.
Manual for Quitting Writing
Literary paradox: only a few make a living from writing, but anyone can publish, in a charming absurdity.
Bouquiphiles
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.
Loose Pages
Citario Conrad
Critical perspectives that explore the ethics, moral enigma and poetics of travel in the work of the great Polish-British writer.
Loose Pages
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Dietary for Out-of-Date Beings II
Diets and food aversions of certain outdated individuals.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 ...
László Krasznahorkai: Between Beauty, Ruin, and Deep Obsession
October 16, 2025
Krasznahorkai’s trance-like, apocalyptic prose transforms collapse into a spiritual aesthetics that bridges Western ruin and Eastern contemplation—while risking a slide from lucidity into resigned nihilism. ...
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Qumran, the Magic Word
July 31, 2025
The Qumran manuscripts reveal the life and beliefs of an ancient Jewish sect, with apocalyptic texts, strict rules, and mysteries that remain unsolved.
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‘Nueve ficciones’: A Topography of Narrative Invention
May 14, 2025
Carlos Ávila Villamar's ‘Nueve ficciones’ reads like a map of a non-existent territory, a system of textual exploration that questions the sources of meaning through ...
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Notes for an Aesthetic of Card Games
July 8, 2025
In artistic representations of card players throughout history, the tension between the moral condemnation and aesthetic beauty of the game stands out.
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Is It Necessary to Say No? The Affirmative Ontology and Its Secrets
October 21, 2025
Aristotle subordinates negativity to an affirmative ontology of potentiality and actuality, founding a tradition that prioritizes difference and becoming over being/non-being.
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Flesh and Blood Essay (2)
June 22, 2025
The unexpected virtues of adversity and violence as drivers of progress and innovation.
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