Thirty years ago, the world lost a great literary mind—the Argentine writer and poet Jorge Luis Borges. Today, Elizabeth Hyde Stevens revisits the financial conditions that produced this life of pure literature, finding unexpected hope in the darkest period of Borges’ forgotten past.
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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
Our favorite stories of the week featuring, The Atlantic, The New Yorker, Los Angeles Magazine, Jezebel, and The Awl.
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A Dead Superhero Is a Marvelous Corpse
A theory of superhero suffering and death.
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Postwar New York: The Supreme Metropolis of the Present
Forty labor strikes on one day, French existentialists on the loose, and a 50-foot G.I. blowing enormous puffs of REAL smoke.
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The Art of Escape
What do we gain from giving inmates access to video games?
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Blast Force: The Invisible War on the Brain
After the First World War, family and friends said that sometimes, boys came back from overseas “not right in the head.” Nearly 100 years later, the American military is only just starting to understand the effects of bomb blasts on soldiers’ brains and the prescience of those casual observations. Caroline Alexander reports in National Geographic […]
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The Remnants of War: A Meditation on Peleliu
Our latest Exclusive is a new essay by Anna Vodicka about the island of Peleliu, which was home to one of World War II’s bloodiest battles.
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Kidnapping a Nazi General: Patrick Leigh Fermor’s Perfect Heist
Travel writer Patrick Leigh Fermor recalls his most dangerous journey.
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Between Generals: A Newly Translated Short Story by Antonio Tabucchi
The complicated history of one of New York City’s immigrants, a former Hungarian General who realizes he spent one of his best days with his worst enemies.
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Can an Outsider Ever Truly Become Amish?
One of the rarest religious experiences you can have in America is to join the Plain.
