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Epistle to Any Student of Our Time in Defense of the Western Canon

To Harold Bloom and Isaías Lerner, In memoriam. I am human, and I think nothing human is alien...

The Urgent Drawings of Camila Lobón

There is still time to see the “PROJ(3)CT” exhibition and the artists Alejandro Taquechel, Nelson Jalil, and...

ChatGPT and the Buddha of Compassion

How great is the danger beyond all salvation. Caotang Quing In 1998 (or was it 1999?), during a press...

Houellebecq and the reactionary revolution

Anéantir (2022), Michel Houellebecq's new novel, is -as it was also the case with his previous title...

Our Banality of Evil

This morning I went for a walk in New York with the right soundtrack for a mournful...

The Icebreaker. Theory and Practice of a Winter Night

Julián Rodríguez has a plan… And it consists, basically, in breaking blocks. Those that separate art and literature,...

Cuban Nothingness: Memoirs

“A snake will break up a hen-house quicker than anything.” William Faulkner, As I lay dying Monte Oscuro, Las...

‘Our Hunger in Havana’, by Enrique Del Risco: A Memory of the Food Crisis

When we talk about food memory we might think of the memory of a family meal, of...