Read in both English and Spanish by Juanita Devis, the Argentine writer’s verses trace his descent into blindness. By Elena Sheppard When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, ...

All things are words of some foreign tongue someone or something, on a nightmarish day-and-night shift, translates in an unrelenting dirge we call the history of the world — embracing Carthage, Rome, ...

In the April 1969 issue of The Atlantic, Borges conjured the sort of surreal, disorienting world for which he had become internationally renowned. A year before his own work was first published in the ...

The Argentine author is best known for his complex, surrealist short stories and poems, but few know about his friendship with David Ben-Gurion. (JTA) — Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges is best ...

“I don’t know how to celebrate this stream of Jewish blood that runs through my veins,” Borges once wrote to a Jewish friend. BUENOS AIRES (JTA) — Jorge Luis Borges, one of South America’s canonized ...

Jorge Luis Borges was born in Buenos Aires in 1899. A poet, short-story writer, essayist, and translator, he is among the most influential and accomplished literary figures of the last century. He is ...

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This year is The New Yorker’s eighty-fifth anniversary. To celebrate, over eighty-five weekdays we will turn a spotlight on a notable article, story, or poem from the magazine’s history. The issue ...

The first volume in Planeta's new line of bilingual (English-Spanish) books presents Borges's autobiographical notes, which were originally published in the New Yorker on September 19, 1970. In them ...