The Daily Beast

Borges Had A Genius For Literature But Not Love Or Much Else

In 1967, Jorge Luis Borges, 68 years old and almost entirely blind, stunned his family and friends by marrying a 57-year-old widow, Elsa Astete Millan. The sudden impulse yielded consequences as bizarre as anything in Borges’s fictional oeuvre.
The Jerusalem Post Blogs

Borges’ love for Israel and Jewish culture on display at National Library of Argentina exhibit

Jorge Luis Borges was one of Argentine's greatest writers, and to this day he is an iconic figure in South American literature. He also held Israel and Jewish culture in high regard. Jorge Luis Borges, one of South America’s canonized writers, wrote many ...
The Guardian

Professor Borges: A Course on English Literature by Jorge Luis Borges – review

Any fears that the posthumous Borges industry was entering a period of contraction can be laid to rest. His latest book, Professor Borges: A Course on English Literature, collects a semester's worth of lectures, which the Argentine master delivered in ...
The Daily Beast

That Time I Chauffeured Jorge Luis Borges Around Scotland

I’ve just written a short memoir, Borges and Me, to be published next month, about a strangely moving encounter in 1971 with Jorge Luis Borges, the great Argentine fabulist. At the time I was 22 and had no idea that he was one of major writers of the ...