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The Other Death: Borges Marathon, Part 34

Can God change the past? If so, how would it affect our memories? This is the central question that Jorge Luis Borges explores in his story “The Other Death”. The story concerns Pedro Damián, whose recent death the narrator hears…
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The Floating World by Ben Eastham

My take on a debut novel set in a near-future European society on the brink of collapse due to climate change and pandemics, in which a freelance art critic gets co-opted into a billionaire's attempt to build his own separate…
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The House of Asterion: Borges Marathon, Part 33

“The House of Asterion” is one of the shortest stories by Jorge Luis Borges, composed almost entirely of the interior monologue of a lonely character who lives in a labyrinth. It shares several features of other Borges fictions. Like “The…
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Books I read in July 2026

The best book I read this month was a historian's account of how the concept of the West came about and why it's origin myths are wrong, but I also read some good novels and other books.
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