We embark on a journey through the Gulf Stream, off Cuba's coast, to delve into Ernest Hemingway's final and iconic novella, The Old Man and the Sea. Is this merely a story of man versus nature, a cont
We're back in 1940s Argentina, this time losing ourselves in the labyrinth of Borges' Lottery in Babylon. Whether this is a noir satire or totalitarian tyranny, pareidolic paranoid delusion, or a metap
We discuss Julio Cortazar's eerie short story 'House Taken Over'. Is Cortazar writing an apology to a displaced upper-middle class? Is this an allegory of outstaying one's welcome in one's own life? A