Jorge Luis Borges

Yasmina Reza publishes new novel in France

2013-01-16 08:05:00

Yasmina Reza, the Tony Award-winning French dramatist whose stage hits include "Art" and "God of Carnage," has a new work out this month but it isn't a play. Reza has published a new novel in France titled "Heureux les Heureux." The 190-page book...

The last typewriter made in the U.K. has left the building

2012-11-20 07:53:00

The last typewriter to be made in the U.K. has rolled off the production line -- and straight into London's Science Museum. Brother has been making typewriters in the U.K. since 1985, the BBC reports, producing 5.9 million typewriters at its Wrexham...

Penguin returns to e-book library lending and more book news

2012-11-19 09:23:00

Penguin will expand its small library e-book lending program to two major regions, Cleveland and Los Angeles County. About a year ago, Penguin pulled its e-books from libraries. The change is about back-end distribution systems: Instead of using the...

Karl Rove likes reading Jorge Luis Borges. Yes, that Karl Rove.

2012-11-16 17:24:00

Karl Rove: Fox News commentator, conservative who caused consternation on election night, major Republican strategist. And fan of metafictional writer Jorge Luis Borges. Yes, really. The news comes from Rove's own website (via Twitter). Since 2010, Rove...

Hans Keilson dies at 101; author fled Nazis, recently drew great acclaim

2011-06-04 21:23:00

Hans Keilson was a newly minted physician in the mid-1930s when the persecution began. As a Jew in Hitler's Germany, he was stripped of the right to practice medicine. A writer, he soon lost that identity too: His autobiographical first novel was pulped...

On the Web: A literary marriage, a writer's lessons and more book news

2011-06-28 16:34:36

Google doodle celebrates Jorge Luis Borges' 112th birthday

2011-08-24 16:34:49

Book review: 'The FSG Book of Twentieth-Century Latin American Poetry'

2011-05-22 00:00:00

The FSG Book of Twentieth-Century Latin American Poetry An Anthology Edited by Ilan Stavans Farrar, Straus & Giroux: 729 pp., $50 Here's the answer to a hypothetical "Jeopardy" query: "Who are Pablo Neruda and, um…?" And now, the question:...

Book review: 'The Information' by James Gleick

2011-03-13 00:00:00

The Information A History, a Theory, a Flood James Gleick Pantheon: 531 pp., $29.95 Partway through "The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood," James Gleick describes a technological innovation so transformative that it was heralded as "one of...

Five literary treats to last all year long

2010-12-24 21:33:45

A lifetime bond over books

2010-12-05 00:00:00

Every Christmas when I was a child and even as a young adult, I knew which present I would open last. Deep under the tree, covered with fallen needles and those home-made paper ornaments you save for the lowest branches, lay a large box. Originally used...

Would Borges have been a fan of Wikipedia?

2010-05-11 16:33:53

The John Muir Elementary School Literacy Garden includes a tile mural depicting Yosemite Valley and a quote by Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges at the Glendale school. The area used to be a small unused space outside the library.

2012-04-27 14:30:00

Writer Jorge Luis Borges was celebrated with an illustrated logo on the 112th anniversary of his birth. Borges was born Aug. 24, 1899, in Argentina and died at age 86 in Geneva. Story

2011-12-12 11:22:31