Tag Archives: Jorge Luis Borges

Reflecting on Career Paths Not Taken

In which I reflect on roads not taken in my career.

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Reading Lit to Cope with Prison

In his book about reading lit in prison, Genis talks about how novels helped him understand fellow inmates and discover his own Jewishness.

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The Theatricality of Martyrdom

While visiting a Dublin exhibit of the Easter, 1916 Rising, I thought both of a Borges short story and Yeats’s famous poem about the event.

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Fiction as Authoritarian Weapon

In “Seduced by Story,” Peter Brooks warns of the dangers of narrative. Borges agrees in “Tlon Uqbar.”

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Borges’s Deep Grasp of Memory

In “Funes the Memorious,” Borges anticipated neurological breakthroughs into autism and the science of forgetting.

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Nothing Hidden about Trump’s Crimes

Trump has been caught red-handed wielding government power to attack an opponent. Borges helps us understand why the outcry isn’t louder.

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Are We Overanalyzing Trump?

Monday My son gave me a tough-love talk about my writing at a wedding reception this past Saturday afternoon. We were in Iowa together for my wife’s nephew and Darien took a few moments to express doubts about book he is helping me self-publish. While he is a big supporter of the blog, he worries […]

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Lit vs. Fabricated Reality

What are serious authors to do when they care confronted with fabricated realities? Author Kakutani reflects on life under Trumpism.

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Trump Crimes in Plain Sight (Poe, Borges)

To understand how Trump can commit crimes in plain sight, read Poe and Borges.

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