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My name is Armando León. I am currently a third-year history student at Columbia and here I write about my favorite books, movies, and other things.

Vampire Weekend’s Modern Vampires of the City

Vampire Weekend's third album provides interesting music with incredibly rich lyrics that invite replaying.

Getting Started With HTML, Part 3

Introduction to HTML, the various tags for the head element, how to write comments.

Guest Post: The Poor Image

The aesthetic of the low-resolution poor image is beginning to break into the mainstream, carrying with it a storied defiance.

Ruth Ozeki’s A Tale for the Time Being

Ruth Ozeki's A Tale for the Time Being brings the postmodernist concern with World War II into a contemporary focus, though not necessarily the right one.

On Translation

The goal of literature is to move people. Translation only helps to serve that goal.