Portrait of Baudelaire
A tragic and visionary dandy, Baudelaire transformed the misery and splendor of Paris into poetry where the abyss becomes beauty.
Collisions
A melancholic song to the absence of Spanish books in the United States, secondhand bookstores, and the loss of words in bilingual collisions.
Bookspel
2025 Cervantes Prize: The Art of Not Disturbing
Institutional mediocrity and a lack of literary risk-taking in the choice of the Cervantes Prize symbolize the cultural domestication of the award.
Essays
From S.B.’s Theater to Pizarnik’s Hell (Miniature V)
An exploration of Beckett's influence on Alejandra Pizarnik.
Book Reviews
Mañach’s New Apotheosis
Editorial Casa Vacía rescues Mañach from the commonplace and brings him up to date.
Loose Pages
Berliozianas: ‘Clair de Lune’ (comp. c. 1890, pub. 1905)
An exquisite and dangerous emotional trap that, under an apparent simplicity, manipulates the listener's melancholy.
Bookspel
Witches, Prophecies, and the Apocalyptic Merch Machine
Apocalyptic feminism as a symbolic and marketable product.
Essays
A Brief Stroll (with RB) Along the Edges of Language
Irony in Barthes, that method of destabilizing the certainties of language, criticism, and discourse.
Essays
Ontological Relics
Lisyanet Rodríguez's work transforms memory and pain into an ontological exploration of humanity, where painting is a form of resistance against forgetting.
Essays
Lezama Looks at El Greco
Lezama sees El Greco as a Baroque painter who fused Venetian and Castilian styles, transcending into modernity.
Book Reviews
Tangier according to Shoemake
A visit to Tangier coincides with reading a guidebook by Shoemake.
Always Susan, Always Sigrid
June 2, 2025
An intimate portrait of a complex friendship with Susan Sontag. Testimonies of an intense literary life full of contradictions.
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Essay, Dandyism, Escapism
June 5, 2025
Brian Dillon's ‘Essayism’ presents a sentimental and fragmented vision of the essay, prioritizing sentiment over intellectual rigor, losing its hybrid essence between art and science.
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Citario Borges
August 24, 2025
On the anniversary of Jorge Luis Borges' birth, this collection of quotes evokes the writer who imagined the Aleph, the symbol of all worlds and ...
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Confessions of a Dilettante
July 10, 2025
Far from its pejorative connotation, the figure of the dilettante embraces with passion and freedom the enjoyment of the arts and sensory pleasures, regardless of ...
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The Letters of the Boom: the Map that Never Was
May 13, 2025
The Latin American “Boom” was a fiesta of letters and ruptures, where García Márquez, Vargas Llosa, Fuentes, and Cortázar wove a tapestry of powerful novels, ...
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Le bureau
September 4, 2025
The desk symbolizes the transformation of power in the West, which shifted from open conflict to an administrative order inspired by an idealized Eastern absolutism. ...
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