Uprooting Borges: could his burial wishes be thwarted for his 110th birthday?
A proposal pending before Argentina’s lawmakers would seek to relocate Borges’ remains from Geneva to Buenos Aires.
A proposal pending before Argentina’s lawmakers would seek to relocate Borges’ remains from Geneva to Buenos Aires.
Given the intensity and depth of her fiction, and the fact that it was once so popular, I’m surprised that so little has been written about the loss of Like Being Killed author Ellen Miller. Would her death have received more attention if she’d been younger — she was in her forties — a striver, or male? But here’s Daniel . . .
A new Coetzee book, Summertime, is due out — in the UK, at least — September 3. (Via.)
Experts debate age and authenticity of a newly-found Bible written in a dialect of Jesus’ native language. (Via.)