For 12 years, starting in 1956, Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) taught a course in English literature at the University of Buenos Aires. The blind Argentine literary master would sit without notes ...

See you next Friday. POEMS OF THE NIGHT, by Jorge Luis Borges. Various translators. Read by Juanita Devis. Jorge Luis Borges might be best known for his fiction, but it can’t be forgotten that ...

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 ...

When it came to settling on a single book, in the end it had to be Borges – and it had to be this one. Other books have had a powerful impact on me, but none marked a turning point in my ...

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 ...

She was a writer and translator but was best known as the widow of Jorge Luis Borges, one of Latin America’s great writers. By Neil Genzlinger María Kodama, a writer and translator who was 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 ...

“The Rigor of Angels,” by William Egginton, considers how three very different men — Jorge Luis Borges, Immanuel Kant and Werner Heisenberg — rejected conventional assumptions about ...