The lost lessons of Jorge Luis Borges: His English and American literature classes
Shortly before the 40th anniversary of the Argentine writer’s death, a new book explores a course he taught in 1966
From Borges to Jennifer Aniston: Science begins to illuminate the mysteries of memory
How do cell phones affect our memories? What percentage of them are imagined? A group of neuroscientists is trying to unravel the secrets of one of the brain’s most common and least understood functions
John Berger and the loss of rural culture
It is paradoxical that small farmers consider environmentalists their enemies
Curtis Yarvin’s brave new world: ‘We need a corporate dictatorship to replace a dying democracy’
Recently, the provocateur has gone from being a marginal figure of the so-called ‘Dark Enlightenment’ to placing himself at the center of the American ideological war, cast as a kind of oracle to the MAGA universe
Family tragedy, the repression of Argentina’s military dictatorship and the delicate legacy hidden in ‘The Eternaut’
Martín Oesterheld is the grandson of the man who wrote the comic of the same name. He has led the Netflix series adaptation of the legendary graphic novel. The original creator of the series was disappeared during the Argentine military dictatorship, along with his four daughters and three sons-in-law
Mario Vargas Llosa and the Latin American ‘boom’: The extinction of the literary barbarians
The movement to which the Nobel laureate belonged promoted the hyperbolic freedom of a fiction that was unlimited and furiously aware of its own ability to change the world with words and with the courage of inventiveness
Borges’ fictitious tale becomes reality
A new project led by writer Jorge Volpi brings together 20 authors under the age of 40 in the reinvention of a work that speaks of an inexistent civilization
How to write a biography in the digital age without getting lost in a sea of data
As online personal information grows exponentially, biographers may need artificial intelligence technology to sort through it all
Jorge Luis Borges’ estate future in limbo as widow Maria Kodama doesn’t leave will
Argentine law states that, if there is no will and no natural heirs, a person’s estate is taken over by the state
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