Buenos Aires. The city of Buenos Aires will pay homage to the writer Jorge Borges (“The Aleph”) from the twentieth anniversary of his death, in June, to his birthday in August. He would have liked that, I think. “I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.” — Borges.
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Book Review. The Historian, by Elizabeth Kostova. Here’s a thought: we have moved out of the era where historians and horror movie fans are two entirely different sets of people — there’s enough overlap to justify this book, after all. The plot (which successfully pulls off almost as many stories-within-stories as The Arabian Nights) involves
More poetry. Just Listenby Peter Johnson I sit by the window and watch a great mythological bird go down in flames. In fact, it’s a kite the neighborhood troublemaker has set on fire. Twenty-one and still living at home, deciding when to cut through a screen and chop us into little pieces. “He wouldn’t hurt
On this date… Meme via Hythia. I’m supposed to search Google for the date of my birth and come up with some births, some deaths, and some interesting facts. Births: 1852 – Calamity Jane, American Wild West performer (d. 1903)1881 – Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, French palaeontologist and philosopher (d. 1955) Deaths: 1873 – David
More poetry. Fearsby Felipe Benitez Reyes By Gonzalo De Lerma The sensation of being the only guestin a grand hotel on the outskirts of the city—and hearing the somnambulisticelevator and a scream—or being in an empty theateror in a lonely plazaof a lonely unknown cityweighed down with suitcases and no moneysurrounded by escaped dovesfrom the
More Texas. You know, I left out the funniest part of being in Texas. Everything is decorated almost exactly as if it were in western South Dakota. Swap out the Native American influence for Hispanic, and there you have it. Friday: Dallas Zoo, currently a tropical paradise. We were walking along an outside corridor formed