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‘Borges and Me’ Review: Gentle, Nostalgic Literary Road Movie Is More Perky Than Poetic

American author Jay Parini’s 2020 memoir “Borges and Me: An Encounter” read as a charming extension of an anecdote any writer would dine out on for the rest of their life: the tale...

Borges and Me: New film tells story of writer's 1970s tour of Scotland

A film about the great Argentinian author's trip around Scotland in 1971 has premiered in Edinburgh.

Borges on How to Conquer Time

"Time is the substance I am made of. Time is a river which sweeps me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger which destroys me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire which consumes me,...

Adolfo Bioy Cesares delay

My Amazon shipment is postponed from this fall until April 11, 2028 (!). Will it ever come? Of course this is the fantastic, and long, Bioy Cesares book Borges, his memoir of their...

Book Freak #220: The Mind’s I

Hofstadter and Dennett on the Strange Loop of Self and Consciousness

Richard Blanco Reads Elizabeth Bishop

The poet joins Kevin Young to read and discuss “Questions of Travel,” by Elizabeth Bishop, and his own poem “My Father in English.”

Entrevista imaginaria con Fernando Pessoa

Lee aquí la columna Oficio impuro de Freddy Ñáñez La entrada Entrevista imaginaria con Fernando Pessoa se publicó primero en Últimas Noticias.

Braving the Labyrinth

Geoffrey O’Brien is one of those writers who can write about anything: opera, British postwar film, crime fiction, the Third Reich, Grant Wood, Patti Smith, Duke Ellington, Seinfel...

Matter, Memory, and the Paradox of Perception: Henri Bergson on How to See Reality

In 1896, decades before Santiago Ramón y Cajal pioneered neuroscience, more than a century before Oliver Sacks showed us how perception phosphoresces in the 100 milliseconds betwee...

Fernando Pessoa on Unselfing into Who You Really Are

“To be nobody-but-yourself — in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else — means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight,” E....

Ode to a Good Pen: A Poem About Writing the Book of Love, Read by Nick Cave

I spent the summer using the fantastic binomial technique developed by Gianni Rodari — the beloved Italian writer whose stories lit up my Bulgarian childhood — as a creative prompt...

How to Be a Good Explorer on the Lifelong Expedition to Yourself

Life is an ongoing expedition into the brambled tendrilled wilderness of ourselves, continually stymied by all we mistake for a final destination — success, superhuman strength, th...

Kahlil Gibran on the Art of Becoming Yourself Across the Sweep of Life

A roadmap to the fulfilled belonging on the other side of "the great aloneness which knows not what is far and what is near, nor what is small nor great."

Mario Morenza: “A veces pienso que transitamos tiempos paralelos”

El escritor caraqueño ha publicado su primera novela, El plano inferior (Monroy Editor), una historia en la que el protagonista, el arquitecto Edward Gómez Gómez, decide abandonar...

A Stranger in the Mirror

That muddy face looks like someone familiar, yet I can’t recallContinue reading on Medium »

This Book Made Me

In his novel The Strange One, which I read as a teenager, Fred Bodsworth wove together the stories of a naturalist and a barnacle goose. Alternating point-of-view novels have fasci...

Mike’s Blog Round-Up

Today, another deep cut into the lore of middle America. Yesterday, we celebrated the birthday of Ray Bradbury,, whose fictionalized version of his boyhood home in Waukegan, Illino...

6 Great Mysteries Set in the Publishing Industry

Does it make me an out and out narcissist if I say I love seeing myself reflected in fiction? If it does, so be it. I love it. I love seeing worlds I’ve inhabited. I love seeing ch...

A genius encumbered by loss: A haunted Jewish poet is brought back to life