May 1938. The young novelist Aoyama Chizuko has sailed from her home in Nagasaki, Japan, and arrived in Taiwan. She’s been invited there by the Japanese government ruling the island, though she has no interest in their official banquets or imperialist agenda. Instead, Chizuko longs to experience real island life and to taste as much […]
On Thursday, 9th of July, we’re going to meet and discuss Friedrich Hayek’s essay The Use of Knowledge in Society. First published in 1945, it is widely regarded as one of the most influential essays in economics and political philosophy of the twentieth century. In the essay, Hayek explores a simple question: how can society […]
Hello again❣️🌤️❣️ Let’s meet on Sunday, July 19, at 6 PM at the Globe Café to have a light discussion around the movie Ladies First (2026). I also encourage you to check out the movie I Am Not an Easy Man (2018), a slightly older movie with arguably the same plot/concept as Ladies First. You […]
She Who Remains,Rene Karabash’s landmark Bulgarian queer novel, secrets readers into a rural Albanian village where, to this day, the Kanun of Lekë Dukagjini―a collection of archaic laws―looms over the lives of villagers with the same haunting presence of the surrounding mountains. Bekija, painfully aware of why she cannot have what she most wants, chooses […]
On Saturday, 25th of July, we’re going to begin a two-part discussion of Plato’s Republic, one of the most influential works in the history of philosophy. For this first session, we’ll focus on Books I–V. Written around 375 BCE, the Republic is Plato’s most famous dialogue and a foundational text of Western political thought. The […]
The theme: You are the problem. You can take this to mean what you like. We thought it was amusing to bring in poems that when you read it you think the poet is the problem. But let the theme go wherever you like, we’re all discovering. Post them to our facebook page, email them […]
Are you a writer, painter, illustrator, musician, or any other kind of artist or creative type? Do you have: * a creative project you’re working on at the moment? * a particular work you made in the past that you’re fond of and want to discuss? * an orphan project that you abandoned, but would […]
The venue has been changed to Restaurace Mon Ami, due to possible rain. We will meet inside the restaurant at 6:30 PM. Adress: Roháčova 135/20, 130 00 Praha 3-Žižkov Czech has an exceptionally rich literary history that makes it the incredible country we all love today. One of the writers that forms Czech literary identity […]
🧭 EU Migration Policies: Good Intentions, Externalized Violence🧐 📍 Location: Žižcafé Therapy /Žerotínova 1520/33 🗓️Date: Wednesday, 19th August ⏰ Time: 7:00 PM Our next Asamblea Abierta debate: the gap between […]
“The only difference between suicide and martyrdom is press coverage,” according to the “been there, done that” wisdom of Tender Branson, last surviving member of the Creedish Death Cult. At the opening of Chuck Palahniuk’s hilariously unnerving second novel, Tender is cruising on autopilot, 39,000 feet up, dictating the whole of his life story into […]
How much of another person do we really know? How much of attraction is actually imagination? Can Cat People really be trusted? We’ll discuss these questions and more at the next Read & Riff meeting, where we’ll discuss Kristen Roupenian’s short story Cat Person. Read & Riff is a book club for short story lovers. […]
“Kublai Khan does not necessarily believe everything Marco Polo says when he describes the cities visited on his expeditions, but the emperor of the Tartars does continue listening to the young Venetian with greater attention and curiosity than he shows any other messenger or explorer of his.” So begins Italo Calvino’s compilation of fragmentary urban […]