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Tag: Miscelana in English
Selected Miscelana articles available in English. Here you’ll find cultural analysis, reviews, and essays on cinema, television, literature, and pop culture, translated from the original Portuguese to reach a wider international audience
Valentino Garavani and the Glamour That Outlives Death
From the farewell in Rome to his silent reign over Hollywood, the story of a designer who turned elegance into cultural language
Evan Peters: With The Beauty, He Crosses the Abyss on the Right Side
A conversation about heroism, imperfection, and the moral side of The Beauty.
The Beauty – Episode 3 (Recap): Christopher Cross and the moment when beauty becomes strategy
In its third episode, the series expands its mythology, connects the corporation to the virus, and reveals the moment when beauty stops being an accident and becomes a strategy
The Beauty – Episode 1: When beauty ceases to be desire and becomes control (Recap)
Ryan Murphy’s new series opens with an extreme sequence in Paris and introduces a world where aesthetic perfection comes with a literal and deadly cost
Paranoia Is Not Being Wrong: Harry, William and Diana’s Legacy
By speaking about isolation and fear, Harry reclaims the meaning of the word and reveals the quiet divide between him and William when remembering Diana
The Beauty: Ryan Murphy and the Epidemic of Perfection
Between The Substance, Death Becomes Her, and Ryan Murphy’s provocative aesthetic, the series transforms the obsession with appearance into body horror and social critique
Agatha Christie in Ten Books: How the Architecture of “Whodunit” Was Born
From her 1920 debut to the masterpieces of the 1940s, a curatorial reading of the novels that defined the crime genre, consecrated Poirot and Miss Marple, and turned Agatha Christie into the great architect of modern mystery.
Jenny of Oldstones: the tragedy that echoes in A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms
With the premiere of HBO’s new series, the legend of the love that cost a throne gains renewed weight in Westeros
Oscar 2026 heads into nomination morning amid real risk of surprises
Behind-the-scenes chatter reveals internal splits, vote math, and a less obvious group of likely nominees
