Books
What the Animals Know: On Violaine Bérot's Comme des bêtes
What I found in this book, and was not quite expecting, is that the question of margin and norm is not posed abstractly. It is posed through the body.
The Bridge on the Drina: A Chronicle Etched in Stone and Time
Elegant, resilient, scarred by time and conflict, yet still standing.
Down the Rabbit Hole
Reflections on Benjamín Labatut's 'When We Cease to Understand the World'
NeXus #0005
The weekly supplement for extra goodies.
In the Fog with Karen
Reflections on Memory, Identity, and the Mysteries We Carry
🔴 Viewpoint: How Cities Reshape the Soul
A Journey Through Stone and Self
Bearing Witness to a Poisoned Inheritance: Isabela Figueiredo's Notebook of Colonial Memories
A work of such unflinching honesty, such controlled fury, that reading it feels less like turning pages and more like bearing witness to an exorcism.
Finding Eternal Connection: A Journey Through "Watching Over Her" by Jean-Baptiste Andrea
In the words that Jean-Baptiste Andrea has given us through Mimo and Viola, we find an invitation to examine how we watch over those we love, and how, in turn, we allow ourselves to be watched over—seen, protected, and celebrated despite our imperfections.
🔴 Viewpoint: The Velvet Prison
An Architecture of Voluntary Captivity in the Digital Age
🔴 Viewpoint: The Art of Thinking in an Age of Information Abundance
Why Critical Thinking Has Become Our Most Essential Survival Skill
Adrift in Barcelona: Unpacking Manuel Vázquez Montalbán's Southern Seas
It transcends genre conventions, using the framework of a detective investigation to offer what Montalbán aimed for across the series: a "moral chronicle" of Spain's tumultuous Transición, the period of transition from Franco's dictatorship to democracy in the late 1970s.
🔴 Viewpoint: Viewpoint: Can AI Truly Understand Us?
Can AI comprehend who a person is, beyond simply processing what they say?
🔴 Viewpoint: Tolkien's Legendarium - Lessons in Narrative, Lore, and Lifelong Re-reading
There exists a peculiar alchemy in the way certain literary worlds seize not just our attention, but our very soul—and Tolkien's Middle-earth has been, for me, such a transformative landscape.