Photo: Elly Fairytale on PexelsJuan VilloroPerfumes include stinky ingredients, metaphysics is meaningless without physics, and certain people are contradictory. The elusive Michel de Nostradamus was born in 1503 in Provence. He was one of the brightest and darkest figures...
Photo: Oleg Magni on PexelsJuan VilloroOne proof of the decline of journalism is that it gives little news from the afterlife. Although millions of sentient beings verify daily that ghosts carry out their functions, it is not fashionable to...
Photo: Freestocker on iStockJuan VilloroVicente Rojo was seven years old when his mother had to sell the piano. His father, who belonged to the Communist Party, had gone into exile in Mexico after the Civil War, and it would...
Photo: Jonny_Nurko on iStockJuan VilloroIn December 2020, I spoke with Irene Vallejo in a virtual meeting organized by the Foundation for Mexican Letters. Suggestively, the Aragonese philologist took up a major theme of her book El infinito en un...
Photo: Mulyadi on UnsplashJuan VilloroThe unusual Germany creates the impression that more words are born there than people and that more people are baptized in dictionaries than in churches.Image: Raphael Schaller on UnsplashIn 1980, Günter Grass published his novel...
Photo: iLexx on iStock Juan VilloroOn December 11, 2020, James Flynn, a philosopher, and psychologist who studied human intelligence evolution, died. Decisive statistics on brain performance are owed to him, a very recent field, considering that Homo sapiens has...
Image: on amazon.com"A Chronicle of Mexico City and Its Multitudes" is the title of a review by Rubén Gallo for the New York Times*. And so he goes, "Mexico City, a vast megalopolis of over 20 million, founded 500...