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Amerika: The Missing Person by Franz Kafka, translated by Mark Harman (Schocken Books, 2008) Kafka's comic novels could hardly be c...

“The Superstitious Ethics of the Reader” (1931) by Jorge Luis Borges, translated by Suzanne Jill Levine, in Selected Non-Fictions , edited ...

Contempt by Alberto Moravia, tr. Angus Davidson (New York Review Books, 2004) Riccardo Molteni decided to write down his memories of ...

"Shakespeare's Memory" (1983) in Collected Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges, tr. Andrew Hurley What if you are to be gifted ...

Evil and the Mask by Nakamura Fuminori, translated by Satoko Izumo and Stephen Coates (Soho Press, 2013) How does one unleash maximum e...

I thought I'd never hear the brave librarian speak. Posterity saved the lectures that Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) delivered in Harv...

The book in question is a very funny, very entertaining and refreshing whodunit, with more than passing references to Borges (a major char...

I have already told you that enchantment can take many different forms, and it could be that these have changed in the course of time, so...

from A Personal Anthology by Jorge Luis Borges, edited by Anthony Kerrigan, story translated by Anthony Kerrigan (Grove Press, 1967) ...

Books in themselves have no meaning. – Jorge Luis Borges. "The Library of Babel." In The Mirror of Ink . (Pocket Penguin, 200...

from Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges, edited by Donald A. Yates & James E. Irby, story translated by James E. Irby (New Directions, 19...