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Everything I will not read

Everything I will not read
Lo que no leeré

Adriana Díaz Enciso
For some months now, I’ve been feeling a certain urgency to read again Thomas Mann’s Doctor Faustus. It would be the third time. Some fifteen years elapsed between my first…
El reino unido

El reino unido

Adriana Díaz Enciso
Las elecciones en cualquier país y las campañas que les preceden, como hemos tenido oportunidad de observar ampliamente en los últimos meses, son trances contradictorios de la vida pública colmados…
36 Years With Sinéad

36 Years With Sinéad
36 años con Sinéad

Adriana Díaz Enciso
...She came from Ireland, and in the tragedy of her personal story and that of her siblings she saw the embodiment of the tragedy of her country, suffocated by a…
People

People
Gente

Adriana Díaz Enciso
An asthma crisis prevented me from going out and measuring directly in the streets the level of national enthusiasm or indignation. I wasn’t around any of the innumerable street parties…
UK, September 2022. Second Part

UK, September 2022. Second Part

Adriana Díaz Enciso
Delirium I’m sitting at The Whittington Stone pub in north London, watching the funeral procession of Queen Elizabeth II after the religious service at Westminster’s Abbey. The cortege has just…
Out with the Beast

Out with the Beast
Se va la bestia

Adriana Díaz Enciso
From the day before I went on holiday this summer, I didn’t want to watch the news. I had the firm resolve to disconnect from any source of stress and…
Nuclear

Nuclear

Adriana Díaz Enciso
Up to some eight thousand years ago, Great Britain was still joined to that which would become an expression of its strangeness once it became an island: the continent. I…
War

War
Guerra

Adriana Díaz Enciso
Nothing like the threat of an all-inclusive third world war (i.e., with nuclear weapons) to make a deadly and devastating pandemic seem almost insignificant. The human mind is odd. Its…