The Letter

War and Love in The Palace of Eros

This letter is addressed to the beloved one who is always suspicious yet never reveals: our essay on the recent novel "The Palace of Eros," by the Uruguayan-American Caro de Robertis, in the context of the current genocide, systemic violence, and the communitarian enlightenment through bodily emancipation that offers another taste for those classic narratives.

On Friends and Mephistos

This letter is addressed to the friends we have lost in the hope that literature, our literatura, will provide a pact of love. In that hope, as well, we delve into the spiritual pacts that books can offer, such as the ones in novels by Mariana Enríquez, Ursula K. Le Guin, José Donoso and Zora Neale Hurston.

Literary Mourning Ritual for Chile, 1973

This special episode has been our own ritual to never forget what happened with literature in Chile since September 11th, 1973. It was recorded on September 11th, 2023, for us to grasp that previous moment of complete potentiality, and to manifest that fuerza into our lives and books.

A Language for Disaster

This letter seeks for empathy from the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, whose parents applied for asylum. We reflect on the exhibition No existe un mundo poshuracán through the book while they sleep: under the bed is another country, by poet roque raquel salas rivera, as well as Shellyne Rodriguez’s Third World Mixtapes.

The Many Names of Gabriela Mistral

This letter is addressed to all the migrant children who are currently being forced to work in the United States. We read Gabriela Mistral, the first Latina Nobel Prize of Literature, to look for the many names of those migrant children.