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, ...

Marc Turtletaub is directing Oren Moverman's adaptation of Jay Parini’s memoir on his 1970s trip through the Scottish Highlands with Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges. By Scott Roxborough Europe ...

In Spanish, the long-dead Jorge Luis Borges is a minor Internet star. The Argentine short story writer, who died in 1986, left behind an unlikely legacy on YouTube and other sites: audio recordings ...

Xul Solar, “B.A.” (1929), gouache and watercolor on paper, 11.8 x 17.7 in (private collection) (all images courtesy the Americas Society) Photograph of J.L. Borges and Xul Solar eating in Quilmes with ...

Is Borges the 20th century’s most important writer? This was the question that Jane Ciabattari posed in an essay published on BBC Culture, and answered thus: “Over the decades since his death in 1986, ...

I’ve just written a short memoir, Borges and Me, to be published next month, about a strangely moving encounter in 1971 with Jorge Luis Borges, the great Argentine fabulist. At the time I was 22 and ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

I'm almost a century late to this party, but I recently stumbled into the movie reviews of Jorge Luis Borges (in his Selected Non-Fictions) and they're fantastic: gloomy, sometimes bitchy, hilarious.

I am uneasy writing about Jorge Luis Borges (b.1899, Buenos Aires, d. 1986, Geneva). Borges wrote so much that I have not read; yet his world of myth and fantasy and magic and metaphysics has so ...

Jorge Luis Borges was already my favourite author when, as a struggling, penniless, 25-year-old writer, I was living in a garret in Amsterdam in 1976. But never, when – to escape the freezing Dutch ...