Among the luminaries I met during my recent visit to Puerto Rico was my old colleague and friend Daniel Nina. (Thanks to the good efforts of Orlando Martinez-Garcia, we met at Professor Nina’s home office in Santurce on Thursday afternoon and had dinner at the popular Costa Azul in Manati on Saturday night.) Among other accolades, it is no exaggeration to say that Prof Nina is the island’s most prolific author; pictured below, for example, are just some of the books he has published over the years! Also, he has played a pivotal role in my own intellectual development: it was Nina who introduced me to the late Carlitos del Valle and to two cult classics, Blade Runner (the director’s cut) and The Battle of Algiers.