Excerpt from So Great Is the Light
To say that dusk had descended would be inexact. It rather seemed to be seeping from the corners of the meadow, a crawling, not gathering thing that went undetected for…
Adriana Díaz Enciso
Return
El regreso
Return, by Adriana Díaz Enciso *** Among the avalanche of images and words that testify to a world racked by violence, uncertainty, multiple forms of madness and all the imaginable…
Dark October
Oscuro octubre
October started badly for an afflicted Mexico, as Claudia Sheinbaum was sworn in as president on the first day of the month. We were just having some respite, thinking that,…
Everything I will not read
Lo que no leeré
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
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 años con Sinéad
...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…
Some Thoughts From London
Reflexiones desde Londres
After an unusually warm beginning of October, today (I’m writing this in the middle of the month) we woke up to a radiant, cold blue sky. Yesterday’s rain, which was…
People
Gente
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…
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…