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Steven Millhauser seizes ideas and runs with them—until they’re out of breath and he’s out of words. The Pulitzer Prize winner’s new collection of short stories, “Dangerous Laughter,” takes the shape of...
John W. Wronoski on Dec. 11, owner of the Square used book store Lame Duck Books, after discovering that nearly a million dollars’ worth of Jorge Luis Borges manuscripts that were presumed stolen were actually hiding in a photograph binder in the store. News of the manuscripts?...
There’s only one question more agonizing than “You go to Harvard?”, and that’s the inevitable follow-up: “What are you studying?” Say English or Hist and Lit and watch admiration turn to...
After more than a century, a name change and a sea of famous faces, from Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges to Katharine Hepburn and Johnny Depp, the four-star boutique L'Hotel is at the top of its game. Thanks to design guru Jacques Garcia's recent lavish upgrades, a...
Each individual top 10 list is like its own steeplechase through the international canon. Look at Michael Chabon's. He heads it up with Jorge Luis Borges's Labyrinths. (Nice: an undersung masterpiece by a writer's writer.) He follows that up with by Pale Fire by Nabokov at #2...