Calvino and the Codex Seraphinianus: A Psychedelic Mystery
On a cloudy Friday afternoon, sometime at the end of March, we were sat huddled on the floor of a Continue reading
Category Archives
Archive for: books
Borges and the Book of Infinity
If the Library of Babel is a library that is all libraries, then what if there was a book that is all books? What if, in the pages of a book, one could find infinity itself?
Fernando Pessoa and Nietzsche: The Last Man and Happiness
“Zarathustra has changed, Zarathustra has become a child, Zarathustra is an awakened one; what do you now want among the Continue reading
The Mystery of The Voynich Manuscript
The Voynich Manuscript dates to the early 15th Century and it is believed to have come from northern Italy. It Continue reading
Kafka, Orwell, Huxley: The Surveillance State in Literature
Even since the days before the Edward Snowden revelations there have been comparisons made between the powers of the NSA Continue reading
Borges and Calvino: Invisible Cities and Dreams
…Marco’s answers and objections took their place in a discourse already proceeding on its own, in the Great Khan’s Continue reading
No Place to Hide: The Importance of Glenn Greenwald’s Newest Book
‘There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment. How often, or Continue reading
When Fiction Lives In Fiction
Fantastic Borges essay on the history of meta-fiction and its role in literature. After a thorough search of Google I couldn’t Continue reading
Blue Labyrinths 