Paulo Furtado - STARCREST

Books

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.

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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.

Digital Age

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

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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?

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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.

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Viewpoint: Finding Meaning in the Muddle - Why Philosophical Fiction Speaks to Our Uncertain Times

There are moments, often arriving unbidden during times of collective unease or personal crossroads, when the stories we turn to feel less like escape and more like engagement.