These new Penguin Classics editions of Jorge Luis Borges’ essays and poetry make a nice set, with the covers of each of the five books displaying a different rendering of Borges’ portrait.
New Borges Editions
Summer Reading at The Brooklyn Rail
Want to know what artists Paul Chan and Richard Serra, poet Eileen Myles, and translator Charlotte Mandell are reading this summer? Check out The Brooklyn Rail’s Summer Reading List.
SF’s Thriving Libraries
Book lovers say it's nothing to keep quiet about: San Francisco's libraries are thriving.
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Coldplay Loves Libraries
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Roberto Bolaño in the NYRB Blog
"The books that I remember best are the ones I stole in Mexico City, between the ages of sixteen and nineteen, and the ones I bought in Chile when I was twenty, during the first few months of the coup." The New York Review of Books Blog posts an essay by -- you guessed it -- Roberto Bolaño.
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Junot Díaz Cover Art
Junot Díaz's forthcoming collection This is How You Lose Her now has cover art. It appears to be video game inspired.
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On the Family
Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney introduces us to a few of literature’s dysfunctional families at Electric Literature. For a loving family relationship, check out an interview with Phillip and Lily Lopate, collaborators on Every Father’s Daughter.
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Grappling with Language
“Aposiopesis: To cut short a trash-talking opponent mid-taunt by suplexing him. Can also be used in political debates.” Matt Seidel walks readers through a glossary of rhetorical wrestling terms.
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