Topic: Jorge Luis Borges

The mind was dreaming. The world was its dream

The Irish Times - 21 days ago
Solstice Arts Centre, Railway St, Navan, Co Meath Tues- Sat 11am-4pm Until Feb 25 solsticeartscentre. com. . Curator Jacqui McIntosh took the title...

Barnes wins Booker Prize he once named "posh bingo"

Reuters US Online Report Entertainment News - 118 days ago
LONDON (Reuters) - English author and bookmakers' favorite Julian Barnes finally won the Man Booker Prize for fiction on Tuesday, despite once dismissing the coveted award as "posh bingo."The 65-year-old triumphed with "The Sense of an Ending," which at 150 pages was ...

Four Learning Curves That May Jostle Your 2012 Agenda

CIO Magazine - 141 days ago
Computerworld - Perhaps for the first time in the history of IT, the meta-technologists -- those who talk about technology (subscription research...

For the Anniversary of 9/11, A Book That Really Matters

Big Think - 158 days ago
Don't fill in this field Book Think Home Tags Subscribe (RSS) Tweet . In connection with 9/11, any book recommendation risks seeming trivial. Even...

Landmark Buenos Aires cafe to make way for sports shop

AFP Global Edition - 163 days ago
Once the haunt of literary giants Jorge Luis Borges, Graham Greene and Antoine de Saint-Exupery, the famed Cafe Richmond in the heart of Buenos Aires is set to be replaced by a Nike shop, a scandal that has Argentines mourning the loss ...

This weekend's live music picks

San Francisco Chronicle - 201 days ago
0 . Here are The Chronicle's picks for nightclub happenings this weekend. . . Compiled by Andrew Gilbert, Justin Gillett, Mosi Reeves and Chloe...

Welcome to Book Think!

Big Think - 228 days ago
Don't fill in this field Book Think Home Tags Subscribe (RSS) Tweet . A book, any book, is for us a sacred object. Cervantes, who probably did not...

Theatre Review: Diego Matamoros dazzles again in The Aleph

The Ampersand - 269 days ago
Diego Matamoros, than whom Canada has no better actor, is the son of an El Salvador diplomat, and came to this country with his divorced mother at...

Vatican talks seek 'common ground' with atheists

Holy Post - 327 days ago
By Tom Heneghan. . PARIS - The Vatican launched a series of public dialogues with non-believers on Thursday, choosing leading intellectual...

Short story reviews: The Circular Ruins, by Jorge Luis Borges

Helium - 470 days ago
by Jorge Luis Borges is a marvelous tale of magical realism that recounts the fantasy of a magician who builds a golem, a manikin that he wishes to vivify. We see it in many of his stories, especially "Pierre Menard, Author of ...