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A year before his own work was first published in the magazine, Jorge Luis Borges was introduced to Atlantic readers in two articles in the January 1967 issue. He had by then already established ...

Jorge Luis Borges, the great Argentine writer, first encountered Cervantes' Don Quixote in his father's library, in an English-language translation. Borges was just a boy at the time, and he was ...

There Borges postulates an identity the basis of which is a tautology: the infinite book and the labyrinthine garden nominally come together as The Garden of the Forking Paths, an imaginary novel by ...

One of the political mastermind’s favorite writers is Jorge Luis Borges. Alec Nevala-Lee on what Borges’s stories reveal about Rove’s.

Susanna Clarke’s latest novel Piranesi is set in a house with countless rooms. Cameron Laux explores why we’re drawn to impossible spaces. What could the conservative Irish-born writer CS ...

Borges’ use of labyrinths, mirrors, chess games and detective stories creates a complex intellectual landscape, yet his language is clear, with ironic undertones.

Jean Luis Borges conceived his stories as labyrinths - cryptic tales in which the reader is tempted down dead-ends of mistaken perception. And Jim Henson’s Labyrinth ...

Jorge Luis Borges was born in 1899 in Buenos Aires, the last and most lost city on this continent: an imaginary city on a river so wide its other shore is invisible, a city poised on the edge of a ...

Borges specialised in short stories that fold in on themselves, that spiral, misidentify, mislead, magnify, falsify. His games with meaning are located in fantasy worlds, imagined realms tied to ...