People
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…
Adriana Díaz Enciso
21st Century Schizoids
Esquizoides del siglo XXI
The other day I fell prey to a dreadful thought: the more the 21st century moves forward, the less people there will be who’ve known the world without internet and…
A Letter to Protect Sunflowers
Una carta para proteger los girasoles
Dear Anna and Phoebe, A few weeks ago, a friend and I went to the National Gallery in London to see a picture. Only the one, very specific, about which…
UK, September 2022
Reino Unido, Septiembre 2022
September comes with the certainty of the end of a summer that, in the year we reached 40 degrees, the roads started to melt and the earth in the UK…
UK, September 2022. Second Part
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
Se va la bestia
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
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
Guerra
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…
Bell of Rose-coloured Fire
Campana de fuego rosa
Pendant que les fonds publics s’ecoulent en fêtes de fraternité, il sonne une cloche de feu rose dans les nuages. Arthur Rimbaud Last year I applied for a grant…
Pondering on the Future
Pensar el futuro
Some weeks ago, just before the omicron wave made us the gift of this pitiful déjà vu sensation as we approached the festive season, leaving us futilely trying to pluck…
Pictures of Autumn
Estampas de otoño
for Amanda and Nick A couple of weeks after publishing in these space the second part of my reflections—my disenchantment, my sense of suffocation, my rage even—about the sorrowful state…
The Iniquitous Agony of Literature
Part Two In part one of these reflections, I discussed some of the most obvious evils that undermine literary creation nowadays: the urge to turn authors into pawns of celebrity…
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