The wrestling vocation is not a medal. It is a weight. And like any weight, it can be carried as burden or as ballast — the ...
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 Europe ...
It was ironic of fate, though perhaps predictable, to allow Jorge Luis Borges to develop over a long life into his own Doppelgänger. In a 1922 essay entitled “The Nothingness of Personality,” Borges ...
Xul Solar, “B.A.” (1929), gouache and watercolor on paper, 11.8 x 17.7 in (private collection) (all images courtesy the Americas Society) Photograph of J.L. Borges and Xul Solar eating in Quilmes with ...
IN ONE of his most remarkable short stories, Story of the Warrior and the Captive, Jorge Luis Borges recounts two seemingly ...