(JTA) — Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges is best known for his complex, surrealist short stories and poems. Few know he was a great admirer of Israel and the Jewish people. This side of the ...

The Argentine Jorge Luis Borges, one of the most sophisticated writers of the twentieth century, suffered from sexual impotence. This emotionally overwhelming condition shaped his literary experience ...

The meditative state roots the mind firmly in the present, where temporal flow seems to diminish. Jorge Luis Borges captured ...

25. Borges’s footnote at this point in the text says, "There is an erasure in the manuscript; perhaps the name of the port has been removed" (L 116). 26. Compare L.A. Murillo, The Cyclical Night: ...

And this fall, it is celebrating its 100th birthday with a gala, an anthology of its interviews over the years with prominent ...

The physical affordances of a map room are important for another reason, evoked in a famous story by Jorge Luis Borges, describing a people who creates a map as large as their territory.

Spanish novelist and poet Álvaro Pombo is to receive the 2024 Cervantes Prize, the Spanish-speaking world's highest literary ...

According to Jorge Luis Borges, the ancient Chinese had a very simple system of taxonomy. There were all the animals that belonged to the emperor, and the rest. To be fair, it was a little more ...

philosopher Immanuel Kant and writer Jorge Luis Borges. In brief, they humbly accept the “irreconcilability of our cognition and the whole of the cosmos”. While understanding the fundamental ...

gouache, oil pastel, color pencil, and pencil over gelatin silver print on black-coated aluminum plate ...

From sugar skulls and folklorico dancers to a concert honoring Richie Valens, there’s plenty to see and do for Dia de Muertos ...

Fionn Whitehead ("Dunkirk") and Luis Gnecco ("Neruda") are starring in the adaptation of the memoir "Borges and Me" by New ...