Borges' Lone Star Link

A New York essayist excavates Borges' ties to Texas

"...unpublished letters and handwritten essays by the Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges.” So begins writer Eric Benson’s essay about..."

July 5, 2011 Books Post by Kimberley Jones

Moore Is Better

"...1961 to January 1962, the esteemed writer and scholar Jorge Luis Borges came to live in Austin as a..."

Nov. 20, 1998 Books Review by Marion Winik

Exhibitionism

The Cyclical Night: Puzzles in Moonlight

"...Night is a work of obsession for choreographer José Luis Bustamante, who created this shadowy fantasiafrom ruminations about Jorge..."

April 9, 1999 Arts Review

Austin Classical Guitar Narratives Series

"...and fiction from prominent writers such as James Agee, Jorge Luis Borges, Julio Cortázar, and James Joyce. The series..."

July 8, 2016 Arts Feature

Argentinian, Not Mexican

"...may, to some minds, go no further than that Borges story 'There Are More Things.'” Surely Ontiveros is aware..."

Jan. 24, 2012 Postmarks

Free Will Astrology

Your weekly horoscope, January 1-7

"...ARIES (March 21-April 19): Author Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986) carried on a long love affair..."

Jan. 1, 2021 Column by Rob Brezsny

Sin Fronteras

Most observers would agree that Austin has a Latino visual arts community, but within that community are many voices, many points of view, many styles -- and no borders.

"...some critics point to a common vision among Argentinian Jorge Luis Borges, Colombian Gabriel García Márquez, and Mexicans Octavio..."

Feb. 16, 2001 Arts Feature by Rob Curran

Free Will Astrology

Your weekly horoscope, February 14-20

"...should always dream and create their own world.” – Jorge Luis Borges. 3. “A successful relationship requires falling in..."

Feb. 14, 2025 Column by Rob Brezsny

Free Will Astrology

Your weekly horoscope, October 13-19

"...like Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Baudelaire, Nikolai Gogol, and Jorge Luis Borges. Yet he also ingested opium for 54..."

Oct. 13, 2023 Column by Rob Brezsny

Looking For a Writing Class, Austinite?

Calling all writers sick of their cruel inner critics

"...that’s like the North American epicenter of all things Jorge Luis Borges and boasts the archives of David Foster..."

Sept. 9, 2018 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Words and Music

This year's Austin Chamber Music Festival and Austin Classical Guitar summer series really get lit

"...three concerts in which selections by writers such as Jorge Luis Borges, James Joyce, Fernando Pessoa, and Julio Cortázar..."

July 8, 2016 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

The Archive of the Patriarch

Ransom Center acquires Gabriel García Márquez papers

"...impressive materials – papers from the early career of Jorge Luis Borges,; the archive of Dominican-American writer Julia Alvarez;..."

Nov. 25, 2014 Books Post by Robert Faires

Get Booked

Big names and newcomers delight in this collection of recent releases

"...object that reads like something Edgar Allan Poe and Jorge Luis Borges might've penned after being enchanted by Griffin..."

Dec. 20, 2013 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Okkervil River Goes 8-Bit

An adventure game to promote 'The Silver Gymnasium'

"...the myriad literature, film, and musical references ranging from Jorge Luis Borges to Jean Claude Van Damme to Phil..."

Aug. 22, 2013 Screens Post by James Renovitch

Stuck on James Franco's 'Tar'

Franco discusses students, learning, the creative process, and more

"...culminate in patchwork-style features in several schools: He's adapting Jorge Luis Borges stories at the University of Southern California,..."

March 7, 2013 Screens Post by Eli Black

The Q&A Hole: What's Your Favorite Book Of All Time? (Part 2)

With Tim Doyle, Amparo Garcia-Crow, Kareem Badr, and more

"...A.S. Byatt to John Barth to Italo Calvino to Jorge Luis Borges, among many many others I'm sure, and..."

Jan. 14, 2013 Books Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Stanford Kay and Sarah Ferguson

The patterned squares and rectangles rendered here suggest frozen music

"...hearts to think that that most bookish of fellows, Jorge Luis Borges, were he alive and blind as ever,..."

Aug. 26, 2011 Arts Review by Wayne Alan Brenner

Art Galleries

A pair of new visual-arts showplaces gives the art of the camera its due

"...Hollyman of numerous luminaries of his time: George Balanchine, Jorge Luis Borges, Marlene Dietrich, Robert Frost, Dr. Martin Luther..."

April 1, 2011 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Built to Last

Sandra Cisneros on the 25th anniversary of her seminal book The House on Mango Street

"...In fact, her model when writing Mango Street was Jorge Luis Borges' Dreamtigers, a collection of seemingly unrelated pieces..."

March 20, 2009 Books Feature by Belinda Acosta

Page Two: To Whine Is to Love Again

The GOP masterfully weaves a tapestry of deceit

"...other "media." These guys have entered the woods in Jorge Luis Borges country – except where he carved out..."

Oct. 3, 2008 Column by Louis Black

Dangerous Laughter: 13 Stories

Millhauser is a bit of an illusionist himself, trading in elaborate setups, allegorical sleight of hand, and fairy tales with something up their sleeve

"...reverting to the first-person plural or essayistic accounts, channeling Jorge Luis Borges and Franz Kafka. "The Dome" witnesses the..."

Feb. 29, 2008 Books Review by Michael Agresta

WorkSpace: Paul Ramirez Jonas

This installation leaves us to question our own notions of patriotism and our sense of American-ness

"...Ramirez Jonas draws on famous Argentinean writer Jorge Luis Borges as a point of departure for the..."

Dec. 7, 2007 Arts Review by Rachel Cook

Beatbox

Beatbox

"...raps." Heady rhymes about The Charlie Rose Show and Jorge Luis Borges won't earn Penname any Clear Channel spins,..."

Nov. 16, 2007 Music Review by Thomas Fawcett

Austin on Authorship

"...his name was? (What's in a name, after all?) Jorge Luis Borges imagined Shakespeare saying, "I, who have been..."

March 31, 2006 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Seeking the Recipe

Hermeticism has been marginalized academia since the Enlightenment. Can a UT professor and grad student editing a journal change that?

"...hermeticism in pop culture like Led Zeppelin lyrics and Jorge Luis Borges short stories and Harry Potter novels...."

Aug. 15, 2003 Books Feature by Michael Erard

Texas Book Festival

Photos by John Anderson

"...having a drink with the master of all masters Jorge Luis Borges, the audience went his way. Seeming to..."

Nov. 17, 2000 Books Feature by David Garza

Bibliomania

Books We Love and a Few Books We Don't

"...putting in a plug anyway) 9. Selected Non-Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges, translated by Eliot Weinberger 10. Tie: Somebody..."

Jan. 7, 2000 Books Feature

Postscripts

Read It and Weep

"...Sor Juana de la Cruz, Federico Garcia Lorca, and Jorge Luis Borges (among others) provided by Dr. Miriam Balboa..."

Aug. 20, 1999 Books Column by Clay Smith