Yesterday, August 24, 2025 was the 126th anniversary of the birth of the Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges. As I did last year and many previous years, I have curated links representing multiple viewpoints and perspectives on works by and about Borges: books, articles, videos, podcasts, etc., about his fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and teaching.
Particularly intriguing is the report from last fall (see below) in The Hollywood Reporter that a film is being made in Scotland based on Jay Parini’s (somewhat fictionalized) 2020 memoir, Borges and Me: An Encounter.
Next year will mark the 40th anniversary of Borges’ death at 86, on June 14, 1986. Yet Borges remains timeless and eternal, as shown by the resources below!
Daniel Balderston: Introduction (by Balderston and Nora Benedict) to The Oxford Handbook of Jorge Luis Borges
Borges Center University of Pittsburgh: Why Borges
William F. Buckley/Firing Line: Borges: South America’s Titan (1977 video)
Christopher Chen/ Literary Hub:: Christopher Chen on Jorge Luis Borges’s “Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius” (the Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast)
Ross Dawson: Jorge Luis Borges and the impact of AI on human creativity
Hernan Diaz/Literary Hub: Hernan Diaz: “I Wouldn’t Be the Person I am Without Borges.”
William Egginton: The Secret Metaphysics of Borges, Kant and Heisenberg (video podcast)
The End of Austin: Borges in Austin
Five Books: Books by Jorge Luis Borges
Harvard Library: Jorge Luis Borges
Harvard Review Online: Lunch with Borges, by Michael Larkin
The Hollywood Reporter: Fionn Whitehead, Luis Gnecco, Alan Cumming to Star in ‘Borges and Me’
IE Insights/Andrés Porras Chaves: (Re)reading Borges in the AI Era
Inverse Journal: What I Lost When I Translated Jorge Luis Borges — by Andrew Hurley
Library of Congress: Borges interviewed by Alastair Reid; audio recording
Open Culture: Jorge Luis Borges’ 1967–8 Norton Lectures On Poetry (And Everything Else Literary)
Jay Parini/Literary Hub: The Time I Drank with Borges in a Scottish Pub
Res Obscura/Benjamin Breen: When Jorge Luis Borges met one of the founders of AI
The Scholarly Kitchen: The Truth Is in There: The Library of Babel and Generative AI; guest post by Isaac Wink
Saúl Sosnowski: With Borges: A Conversation with María Kodama (Library of Congress video)
Ilan Stavans/TEDed: Infinity According to Jorge Luis Borges (animation)
Texas Observer: Borges and Batts Hall, by Peter La Salle
Toronto Star: Toronto librarian stumbles on mysterious card with Jorge Luis Borges connection
David Foster Wallace/The New York Times: Borges on the Couch