When María Kodama, the widow of Argentine author Jorge Luis Borges, died March 26, we were moved to reevaluate the writer’s complex, sometimes contradictory attitude towards Jews. It has become ...

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 ...

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — The rights to the works of the late Jorge Luis Borges, considered Argentina’s most internationally significant author of the 20th century, have fallen into limbo because his ...

In the short story The Library of Babel, the great Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges constructs a metaphorical replica of the universe, both celebrating and teasing the cosmologists of his time. His ...

It was ironic of fate, though perhaps predictable, to allow Jorge Luis Borges to develop over a long life into his own Doppelgänger. In a 1922 essay entitled “The Nothingness of Personality,” Borges ...

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 ...

Jorge Luis Borges was a poet, but he was also a dreamer of wild fiction, a thoughtful essayist, and—in all of his works—a philosopher. He was always pulling at the threads of perspective and reality, ...

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, ...

They say he was one of the best writers of the last century but Jorge Luis Borges never won the Nobel prize for literature. He was famous for mixing the real and the fantastic but do the Argentinian's ...

Jorge Luis Borges’ mysterious stories broke new ground and transformed literature forever. Everyone should read him, writes Jane Ciabattari. Reading the work of Jorge Luis Borges for the first time is ...