Alvin Dela Serna LopezThe Gargantuan Life of Le Petit CaporalNAPOLEON: A LIFE by Andrew Roberts Penguin Books, 926 pp.,2014,978–0–14–312785–7Jun 11Jun 11
Alvin Dela Serna LopezPablo Neruda’s Erotic Dance with the EarthFULL WOMAN, FLESHLY APPLE, HOT MOON by Pablo Neruda, trans. Stephen Mitchell Harper Perennial, 261 pp., 1997, 978–0–06–173357–4Feb 9Feb 9
Alvin Dela Serna LopezDostoyevsky’s Notes from a Mouse HoleThis is a wicked book. I mean, a literally cruel one. It’s wrong to pack into a single volume of this deceptive slimness some of the…Jan 28Jan 28
Alvin Dela Serna LopezA Rose by Any Other Name*“It’s hard to accept the idea that there cannot be an order in the universe because it would offend the free will of God and His…Dec 19, 2023Dec 19, 2023
Alvin Dela Serna LopezBook Review: Heisenberg on Helgoland and Rethinking the Quantum ParadigmFor a book that could be mistaken for a humble primer on quantum theory, Carlo Rovelli’s Helgoland: Making Sense of the Quantum Revolution…Sep 14, 2023Sep 14, 2023
Alvin Dela Serna LopezOf Christopher Nolan’s ‘Oppenheimer,’ the Age of Specialization, and the Homo UniversalisFriday 21st July I had the chance to catch Oppenheimer, Christopher Nolan’s latest IMAX darling, a physics opera of apocalyptic…Jul 22, 2023Jul 22, 2023
Alvin Dela Serna LopezI finally accepted ketchup as real food for the first time in 24 yearsI hated ketchup ever since Sheila from second grade joked that it came from the blood of hospital patients before she went on to use it as…Sep 6, 2019Sep 6, 2019
Alvin Dela Serna Lopez‘Weather-weather lang yan’“Different lawyers, different opinions,” as Attorney-General James Speed puts it in Steven Spielberg’s “Lincoln”. Decisions are neither…Sep 25, 2018Sep 25, 2018
Alvin Dela Serna LopezPacquiao’s dangerous ChristianityA look at Sen. Manny Pacquiao’s tactical Christianity.Mar 11, 2017Mar 11, 2017