#Spooktober 25 – The Girl from the Other Side

October 25, 2023

Originally titled “Foreign Girl”, and with an Irish song as a subtitle, this 11-volume manga is one of the finest things produced in the last ten years and it tells the story of Shiva, a young girl, who is abandoned in a cursed forest and lives with one of the “others”, creature who can curse you with their touch. The girl and the monster, whom she calls “Teacher”, develop a complex relationship which eventually boils down to the ultimate question: what is a monster?
Both the drawings and the delicate narration will have you into tears by the end of it.

music and theatre

Ma se io avessi previsto tutto questo

Francesco Guccini è stato una figura importantissima per la mia crescita e per il mio sviluppo personale. Sono cresciuta in una casa in cui il rapporto con la musica è stato quantomai particolare, almeno durante la mia infanzia, e l’avevo scoperto grazie all’intervento di due

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Summertime

Paths of the Mirror

Alejandra Pizarnik (1936–1972) was an Argentine poet, translator, and writer of Russian Jewish descent, and one of the most intense and influential voices of mid‑20th‑century Latin America. Born Flora Alejandra in Buenos Aires, she studied philosophy and literature but left academia to devote herself to

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architecture, engineering and construction

The Universe within a Room

Gaston Bachelard‘s Poetics of Space is the book that gives this week its title, and its central claim, that the house is our first universe, a cosmos before we know the word, is seductive enough that it’s worth resisting for a moment. You know the

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