Looking back over my academic career, I explore a regret over not having achieved more as a literary scholar.
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Tag Archives: Jorge Luis Borges
Something Funny Happened Along My Career Path
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Borges on Conspiracy Theories
With Republicans attempting to blame Democrats for the Trump shooting, let’s look at what Borges says about conspiracy theories.
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Reflecting on Career Paths Not Taken
In which I reflect on roads not taken in my career.
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Reading Lit to Cope with Prison
In his book about reading lit in prison, Genis talks about how novels helped him understand fellow inmates and discover his own Jewishness.
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The Theatricality of Martyrdom
While visiting a Dublin exhibit of the Easter, 1916 Rising, I thought both of a Borges short story and Yeats’s famous poem about the event.
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Borges’s Deep Grasp of Memory
In “Funes the Memorious,” Borges anticipated neurological breakthroughs into autism and the science of forgetting.
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Nothing Hidden about Trump’s Crimes
Trump has been caught red-handed wielding government power to attack an opponent. Borges helps us understand why the outcry isn’t louder.