Books
On Barbara Kingsolver's Demon Copperhead
The novel is, in its bones, an act of insistence: this person existed, this is what it felt like from the inside, you will not be allowed to reduce this to an epidemic statistic.
Paulo Furtado
Books
On Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose
We come to Il nome della rosa in 1980 expecting, on the cover's promise, a medieval murder mystery. We get one, and a fine one, with seven dead monks and a Franciscan detective and a great deal of Aristotle. But the book's engine is not the murders.
Viewpoint
Jarales / Jarabo: the rural-bourgeois patron in two Iberian novels
An asymmetric comparison of Camilo JosĂ© Cela's La familia de Pascual Duarte and Layla MartĂnez's Carcoma (2021).
Books
On Layla MartĂnez's Carcoma
MartĂnez's house does not haunt. It accounts.
Books
On Violaine BĂ©rot's Comme des bĂȘtes
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.
Books
On Philippe Collin's The Barman of the Ritz
Every Sidecar mixed to Meier's specifications is a kind of unconscious memorial to the fact that beauty has no politics, or rather that it is indifferent to them, and this indifference has always been beauty's most troubling quality.
Books
On Claudia Durastantiâs La Straniera
La Straniera is not a linear memoir of migration, but a constellation of scenes where language fails, doubles back, or invents itself on the spot.
agentic AI
đŽ Viewpoint: The Delegation Threshold
When AI Stopped Waiting for Instructions
Music
Favourite Albums 2025
(Some of) My album choices from 2025
Viewpoint
đŽÂ Viewpoint: The Machineâs Tempo
We are transitioning, with breathtaking and heartbreaking speed, from a species that contemplates to a species that merely processes.
Nexus
NeXus #0006
The weekly supplement for extra goodies.
Books
The Bridge on the Drina by Ivo AndriÄ
Elegant, resilient, scarred by time and conflict, yet still standing.