Archive - Borges Review of Books

The Decline of the West

“The infinite does not transcend the finite,” says Hegel. “Rather, it is the very movement of the finite itself.”

May 26 •

March 2025

The Corner of the Turkish Redoubt Captured on May 30 but Abandoned on May 31, 1877

His sorrowful eyes remind me of the greatest moment of rock ‘n’ roll in the history of southwestern Ohio.

Mar 5 •

January 2025

Concerning Beatrice Fizzard

A letter from Sr. Mary Athanasius, O.P.

Jan 20 •

December 2024

Winterschwimmen

Christmas stories from the Borges Review of Books.

Dec 24, 2024 •

November 2024

The Thomist of Newfoundland

In the constellation of anglophone Catholic intellectual historians of eastern Canada no star shines brighter than Matthew Julius Thimpick, MA.

Nov 24, 2024 •

June 2024

The River of Dreams

Like a Ghibelline spy entices a street urchin to arson?

Jun 24, 2024 •

April 2024

Ludwig Wittgenstein's Favorite Novel

He imagines what they think about while walking in silence behind him, and he imagines what he would do if he looked behind to find his children…

Apr 26, 2024 •

The Meaning of Plato

Sometimes eternity reaches down its pointer finger and scoots us in the right direction.

Apr 11, 2024 •

March 2024

It is not so much Hysterical Realism as it is Hysterical Hysteria

Or, long forgotten drafts from the prehistory of the Borges Review of Books

Mar 27, 2024 •

February 2024

The Maid and the Castle

Ocean liner staffs in the 1960s were the most concentrated and serious population of poets in the world.

Feb 15, 2024 •

Margaret Valéry, Ethnologist

Her passion for ethnology didn’t sway her father, who refused to let her travel to north Ciscaucasia, so she waited and read and dreamt of walking…

Feb 10, 2024 •

January 2024

Three Sisters: a Kijk Folktale

Kijk elders have a story about the Dolmens of Ciscaucasia. Tevfik Esenç told it to me one morning as we walked through Gaziosmanpaşa in search of what…

Jan 11, 2024 •

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