4451moanaNov 16, 20211 min readThe Gods, the Little Guys, and the Police (book review) Humberto Costantini 200704: vision of argentina in 1975, the height of the ‘dirty war’, from three perspectives. the gods are from classical mythology, the...
4451moanaNov 16, 20211 min readA Luminous Republic (book review) Andrés BarbaLisa Dillman (Translator), Edmund White (Foreword) 200721: there are some beautiful images here, some haunting, hurting narratives,...
4451moanaNov 16, 20211 min readBirthday (book review) César Aira Chris Andrews (Translator) 210404: now here is something opposite the knausgaard i have just read. concise, comic, complete,...
4451moanaNov 14, 20212 min readTent of Miracles (book review)Jorge Amado, Barbara Shelby (Translator) 210428: this is my new favourite amado. what has bothered me on several other works of his, particularly more...
4451moanaNov 11, 20211 min readDaytripper (Daytripper #1-10)(book review) Fábio Moon, Gabriel Bá, Craig Thompson (Introduction), Dave Stewart (Colours), Sean Konot (Lettering) 291017 from 230216: just read this again and again it is...
4451moanaNov 11, 20211 min readThe Mexican Dream (book review) J.M.G. Le Clézio, , or The Interrupted Thought of Amerindian Civilizations Teresa Lavender Fagan (Translation) ??? 2010s?: interrupted dreams are the ones...
4451moanaNov 11, 20211 min readThe Ball Is Round (book review) David GoldblattA Global History of Football 100710: everything you ever need to know about football... everything you do not need to know, as well. i...
4451moanaNov 11, 20211 min readBrazil's Modern Architecture (book review) Elisabetta Andreoli, Adrian Forty200614: fascinating. beautiful. heartbreaking. sort of what the idea and contemporary actuality of Brazil means to me. chapter essay on...
4451moanaNov 11, 20211 min readRed Gold (book review) John Hemming191115: effect of european contact on technologically primitive peoples throughout the world from 1500 to 1750? short answer: not good....
4451moanaNov 9, 20211 min readStolen Continents (book review) Ronald Wright500 Years of Conquest and Resistance in the Americas 261017: this book alternates between inspiring anger and mourning. there is not much...
4451moanaNov 9, 20211 min readLetters to a Young Novelist (book review) Mario Vargas Llosa Natasha Wimmer (Translator) 201010: exactly what i would have wanted to read at fifteen, as an aspiring novelist. concise, capacious,...