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01 November, 2021
Goya's White Duchess | Fashion, naïve art, and magic realism
The White Duchess by Goya shows how fashion was in 1795, and it can be seen as naïve art and magic realism avant la lettre.
08 March, 2024
Stories from the closet | I'm a Fool to Want You
In her anthology of closeted characters, I'm a Fool to Want You, Argentine writer Camila Sosa Villada asks the reader: will your freedom last?
30 May, 2023
Are you listening? | Empathy according to Tillie Walden
Are You Listening? by Tillie Walden is a graphic novel, in which two women who barely know each other run together away from their problems.
25 January, 2023
Midnight's Children | An epic of Indian independence
Published in 1981, Rushdie's Midnight’s Children is a tale of India's independence that combines historical fiction with magical realism.
31 August, 2021
Like Water for Chocolate | A Novel of food and magical realism
The Mexican writer Laura Esquivel wrote her first novel, Like Water for Chocolate (Como agua para chocolate), in 1989.
27 April, 2021
The House of the Spirits | From a letter to Magical feminism
Isabel Allende is a Chilean writer who, born in 1942, has been described as one of the world’s most-read authors in Spanish. She started to write The House of the…
18 January, 2021
Rayuela | Playing with the novel
In 1963, the Argentinian writer Julio Cortázar published Rayuela, a book game that subverts every novel-related rules and structure.
14 July, 2020
The Underground Railroad tells more than Black history
It’s the 19th century, Georgia. Cora is a very young woman and a slave. The only things left to her by her runaway mother are a small garden and a galvanized fury at the world as she knows it.
18 May, 2020
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives
Uncle Boonmee is the final installment in Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s multi-platform project Primitive, centered around the village of Nabua in Thailand.
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Curzio Malaparte’s “The Skin” | Humanity at its worst
Posted on 21 April 2024
Are you listening? | Empathy according to Tillie Walden
Posted on 30 May 2023
The Big Lebowski | Everyman’s Man
Posted on 24 May 2023
Midnight’s Children | An epic of Indian independence
Posted on 25 January 2023
Cinema Paradiso | A Nostalgic Ode to the Seventh Art
Posted on 11 January 2023
Narcos | A contemporary epic of drug warfare
Posted on 7 September 2022
The Green Knight | An Epic Tale of Humans and Nature
Posted on 5 May 2022
Someone Who Will Love You In All Your Damaged Glory | Is love worth it?
Posted on 18 January 2022
The Underground Railroad | On the screen
Posted on 11 November 2021
I’m Not Scared | Transitioning from childhood to adulthood
Posted on 19 October 2021
Pan’s Labyrinth | An Antifascist Fantasy
Posted on 9 June 2021
Luis Borges’ Fictions is a game of chance
Posted on 29 September 2020