Rights to Jorge Luis Borges’s work go to his wife’s nephews
Widow of great Argentinian writer did not leave a will, which put the rights in limbo
February 2022
Top 10s
Top 10 buildings in fiction
It may only rarely get built, but imaginary architecture is a crucial support for many stories, from Jane Austen’s Pemberley to Kafka’s Castle and Ballard’s High-Rise
October 2021
Top 10s
Top 10 true crime novels
Adding an intense layer of meaning to well-known facts, authors including Truman Capote, Kate Summerscale and Gordon Burn raise this genre far above its grubby reputation
August 2021
Take risks and tell the truth: how to write a great short story
Borges and Me by Jay Parini review – around Scotland in a Morris Minor
July 2021
Book of the day
Borges and Me: An Encounter by Jay Parini review – a bumpy literary road trip
Parini’s ‘novelised memoir’ draws on memories of a real-life meeting with Jorge Luis Borges, but can’t quite live up to the inspiration of the Argentine titan
February 2021
The Guardian view on Radio Garden: world citizenship in an app
Editorial: A digital tool that allows us to surf the world’s radio stations is perfect for lockdown liberation
January 2021
Books that made me
Richard Flanagan: 'I still feel it shameful to not finish a book, even a bad one'
Top 10s
Top 10 books about the unknowable
May 2020
'I wanted to be a part of Buenos Aires – and Borges was my guide'
During the decade our writer lived in BA, he got to grips with its streets through the verse of Jorge Luis Borges – and is now revisiting the city via his poetry
April 2020
Top 10s
Top 10 Latin American short stories
Its fiction is best known to English readers through novels, but its short stories are better. From Jorge Luis Borges to Clarice Lispector, here are some of the best
July 2019
Top 10s
From Bag End to Babel: Top 10 libraries in fiction
Writers as different as JRR Tolkien and Jorge Luis Borges have stacked some of their most giddying visions on imaginary shelves. Check them out
June 2019
Reading group
The Rings of Saturn opens on to a dizzy range of allusions and illusions
WG Sebald’s beguiling narrative takes in an enormous collection of different topics at the same time as playing seductive games with fact and fiction
September 2018
People in the Room by Norah Lange review – voyeurism and dreams in Buenos Aires
The first English translation of a 1950 work by the groundbreaking Argentinian author is darkly irresistible
August 2018
Books blog
Norah Lange: finally, 'Borges's muse' gets her time in the spotlight
A groundbreaking poet and novelist, Lange has been reduced to a decorative footnote in male authors’ careers. Might the first English translation of her fiction change that?
April 2018
Packing My Library by Alberto Manguel review – a bibliophile’s demons
The urbane Argentinian grumpily boxes up his 35,000 books and writes a Jekyll and Hyde set of reflections on libraries and the power of reading
January 2018
Nobel archives show Graham Greene might have won 1967 prize
Swedish Academy reveals 70 authors were being considered, with the Brighton Rock novelist backed by the chairman before losing out to Miguel Angel Asturias
March 2017
Other lives
Norman Thomas di Giovanni obituary
Other lives: Translator who collaborated with Jorge Luis Borges and worked on acclaimed English-language versions of the Argentinian’s poetry
January 2017
Case of 'fattened' Jorge Luis Borges story heads to court in Argentina
Writer Pablo Katchadjian says The Fattened Aleph, a lengthened version of Borges’s story The Aleph, is not plagiarism because it is ‘open about its source’
November 2016
It’s all for love as Spain’s Barbara Cartland finally gets a chance to woo British readers
Corín Tellado is famed throughout the Spanish-speaking world for her light romance novellas
