Photo: on tellerreport.comJuan VilloroComrades in struggle during the years of exile and the underground, Daniel Ortega and Sergio Ramírez were the architects of the Sandinista movement that put an end to the Somoza family dictatorship in Nicaragua. From 1985...
Image: Chinnapong on iStockJuan Villoro2020 ended submerged in the pandemic. The only thing we can hope for in the uncertain future is that it drifts away from the present. We are in parentheses, something new for a world that...
Image: Joshua Sortino on UnsplashJuan VilloroThe last decade of the 20th century saw the emergence of a peculiar invention capable of transforming users into merchandise. I am referring, of course, to the internet, online portals, search engines, and social...
Image: James Brey on iStockJuan VilloroIn Descartes' error, António Damásio points out that recent brain studies reveal that our decisions do not depend on reason but emotion. Hence the title of the book. The Portuguese neuroscientist maintains that Descartes...
Photo: NastyaSensei on PexelsJuan VilloroChildhood exists so that adult life becomes mysterious. It is not the same to meet a criminal lawyer today as to have met him when he was six years old and was dedicated to killing...
Image: Francescoch on iStockJuan Villoro"Organizing a library is a silent way of exercising the art of criticism," wrote Borges. Books live in contagious density; they dialogue with each other; they benefit from other people's discoveries, but also errors: Ptolemy,...
Image: Screenshot from https://static.kuula.io/share/79QMS?Juan VilloroEach event derives from circumstances that are not always logical. On August 9, 1945, the Bockscar bomber took off from its base in the Mariana Islands to Kokura, on the island of Kyushu, where the...