If there is a heaven for Jorge Luis Borges, it ought to take the form of a library. A universal library, perhaps, of the sort he imagined in one of his wonderful stories. By no means should it be ...

A library that contains all books ever written or ever to be written, all but lost within a nearly infinite number of works of meaningless gibberish. This was the concept that philosopher Jorge Luis ...

Programmer Jamie Zawinski has created a digital rendering of the infinite, hexagonal library that is the subject and setting of Jorge Luis Borges's short story "The Library of Babel." The universe ...

n 1939, employed in a small municipal library of Buenos Aires where the oafishness of his colleagues made him weep with daily frustration, the 40-year-old (and still largely unknown) Jorge Luis Borges ...

Almost three quarters of a century after it was published, Jorge Luis Borges’ “The Library of Babel” continues to resonate. A year and a half ago, the online magazine Places Journal published a set of ...

From Conversations, a collection of dialogues conducted in 1984 and 1985 between Jorge Luis Borges and the Argentine poet Osvaldo Ferrari, out next month from Seagull Books. Translated from the ...

Seventeen years after his death and nearly 35 years after his brief tenure at Harvard, writer Jorge Luis Borges is returning to campus. “Borges: The Time Machine,” a new exhibit in Houghton Library, ...

The Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges had a profound influence on the shape of modern literature. And he himself was profoundly shaped by the city he grew up in — Buenos Aires – a city that plays a ...

The librarian who claimed to find an old greeting card belonging to famed Argentinean author Jorge Luis Borges in a Toronto library branch has revealed that his “unbelievable discovery” was a hoax.