Barnaba Oretti, Author at Spiegeloog

Words to Start: Nostos by Louise Glück

There was an apple tree in the yard — this would have been forty years ago — behind, only meadows. Drifts of crocus in the…

Barnaba Oretti and Jules KotowiczNovember 28, 2025

Spiegeloog 441: Memory

Spiegeloog 441: ‘Memory’ – Editorial

Spiegeloog 441: Memory covers blacking out, trauma, Severance, and more!

Barnaba Oretti and Jules KotowiczNovember 24, 2025

Spiegeloog 440: Performance Words to Start

Words to Start: The Way the Light Reflects by Richard Siken

The paint doesn’t move the way the light reflects, so what’s there to be faithful to? I am faithful to you, darling. I say it to the…

Barnaba Oretti and Jules KotowiczOctober 17, 2025

Spiegeloog 440: Performance

Spiegeloog 440: ‘Performance’ – Editorial

Who are you at your core? Do you play a character, or do you feel at home when all pretense has been stripped away?

Barnaba Oretti and Jules KotowiczOctober 13, 2025

Camera Obscura Spiegeloog: The Outtakes

Camera Obscura: Sinners

Widely praised and a box office wonder, does Ryan Coogler’s thriller Sinners avoid the pitfalls of past vampire films?

Barnaba OrettiSeptember 8, 2025

Spiegeloog 434: Transformation Tabula Rasa

Tabula Rasa: Flowers for Algernon

“I don't know what's worse: to not know what you are and be happy, or to become what you've always wanted to be, and feel…

Barnaba OrettiOctober 2, 2024

Science Spiegeloog 434: Transformation

The Modern Magic Trick of Artificial Intelligence

The Matrix. Black Mirror. Terminator. The cautionary tale of a technological takeover of the world has been told from the moment the word ‘robot’ was…

Barnaba OrettiSeptember 16, 2024