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On the Shoulders of Giants

by Héctor Alvarez Castillo,Translated by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio,

From a February 2, 1985, interview with Jorge Luis Borges, by Argentine poet and essayist Héctor Alvarez Castillo, included in Camino a Babel, self-published by Alvarez Castillo last year. Translated…

One Notion: Individual

by Kim Phillips-Fein,

Two lives of Ayn Rand

¡Una Lesbiana Enamorada!

by Dave Hickey,

The reverse bowdlerization of Susan Sontag

The Murder of Leo Tolstoy

by Elif Batuman,

A forensic investigation

Mandela’s Smile

by Breyten Breytenbach,

Notes on South Africa

I know what you read last summer

by Ursula K. Le Guin,

The handmaid’s tool

by Margaret Eleanor Atwood,

This America

by Dalton Trumbo,

The voice of the lonely crowd

by Martin Amis,

The frequency

by Paul Limbert Allman,

Solving the riddle of the Dan Rather beating

New books

by Guy Davenport,