Storie Naturali: The Weird and Wonderful World of Luigi Serafini
Recently I received a book in the post. The words were written by an author I’d never heard of and it Continue reading
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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
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?
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
Borges’ Dreamtigers
A man sets himself the task of portraying the world. Through the years he peoples a space with images Continue reading
Paranoia in Philip K. Dick’s A Scanner Darkly
paranoia /ˌparəˈnɔɪə/ noun a mental condition characterized by delusions of persecution, unwarranted jealousy, or exaggerated self-importance, typically worked into an Continue reading
Jorge Luis Borges: Selected Non-Fictions
Another Borges book. Another 5 stars. I mean this man is so brilliant I’m starting to turn into a dithering Continue reading
Blue Labyrinths 