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Mass surveillance, the metaverse, making America ‘great again’: the novelists who predicted our present

From Jorge Luis Borges to George Orwell and Margaret Atwood, novelists have foreseen some of the major developments of our age. What can we learn from their prophecies?

The Guardian - UK

Environmental antibiotic resistance unevenly addressed despite growing global risk, study finds

In his 1941 novel The Library of Babel, Jorge Luis Borges imagines a universe made entirely of books – every possible 410-page combination of 22 letters, a period, a comma and a space. Somewhere within are all the meaningful works ever written, but the vast majority are nonsense.

The Conversation

A Libertarian Travel Guide to Javier Milei's Argentina

Downtown Buenos Aires is a living testimony to the country's history of freedom and prosperity.

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To truly understand Pope Francis’ theology – and impact – you need to look to his life in Buenos Aires

Pope Francis’ journey from the streets of Flores, a neighbourhood in Buenos Aires, Argentina, to the Vatican, is a remarkable tale.

The Conversation

Farewell to Mario Vargas Llosa, the end of an era for Latin America’s literary luminaries

The death of Peruvian author Mario Vargas Llosa (Arequipa, 1936 - Lima, 2025) marks the end of a Golden Age of Latin American literature. Just as there will not be another generation in Spain like that of Cervantes, Lope de Vega, Calderón de la Barca, Tirso de Molina, Góngora and…

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This Canadian guest house is ‘silent but with more to say’

El Aleph is a new Canadian guest house by MacKay-Lyons Sweatapple, designed for seclusion and connection with nature, and a Wallpaper* Design Awards 2025 winner

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The book that sparked a revolution: One Hundred Years of Solitude, the literary masterpiece now adapted for TV

I have read Gabriel García Márquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude five times.

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83 Years Ago, One Sci-Fi Writer’s Prediction Of A Coming Content Crisis Eerily Resonates Today

Borges imagined an endless library that contained every possible permutation of letters. The truth is out there, but it’s embedded among hoards of lies and gibberish.

Inverse

An 83-year-old short story by Borges portends a bleak future for the internet

How will the internet evolve in the coming decades?

The Conversation

Karl Ove Knausgård: ‘The book that changed me as a teenager? The History of Bestiality’

The Norwegian author on the magic of Ursula K LeGuin, returning to Virginia Woolf, and the insight of Jorge Luis Borges

The Guardian - UK

John Barth obituary

American postmodernist novelist whose experimental approach challenged literary conventions

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Mom Gets Kicked Out For Not Taking The Hint That Her Son And DIL Want Alone Time

Wife loses it when mother-in-law won’t leave her and spouse alone for 9 days in a row after they were apart for 2 months. The post Mom Gets Kicked Out For Not Taking The Hint That Her Son And DIL Want Alone Time first appeared on Bored Panda.

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Days of The Jackal: how Andrew Wylie turned serious literature into big business

The long read: Andrew Wylie is agent to an extraordinary number of the planet’s biggest authors. His knack for making highbrow writers very rich helped to define a literary era – but is his reign now coming to an end?

The Guardian - UK

Where tourists seldom tread, part 5: more UK towns with hidden histories

From the home of the original Super-Tramp to the country’s only polycentric city, we find reasons to visit places where few choose to alight

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Hernan Diaz: ‘If ever I find myself on the page, I view it as an immense failure’

The Pulitzer prize-winning author on the punk rock provocation of his writing, an epiphany at the gym, and working with Kate Winslet on the HBO adaptation of his novel Trust

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Court gives the rights to the works of Argentine literary giant Borges to his widow's nephews

A court has granted the rights to the works of the late Jorge Luis Borges, considered Argentina’s most internationally significant author of the 20th century, to five nephews of the author’s widow who died in March

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Review: 'Stories of Books and Libraries,' edited by Jane Holloway

NONFICTION: An impressive collection of stories about books and the places that contain them.

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Future of Borges estate in limbo as widow doesn't leave will

Rights to the works of the late Argentine author Jorge Luis Borges have fallen into limbo because his widow did not leave a will

The Guardian - UK

Márquez overtakes Cervantes as most translated Spanish-language writer

Author of One Hundred Years of Solitude tops list of those most translated into 10 languages this century ahead of Don Quixote creator

The Guardian - UK

A Mountain to the North… by László Krasznahorkai review – a tribute act to modernism

This short novel is probably the most accessible entry point for a newcomer – but that’s not saying much

The Independent UK

Alejandro González Iñárritu on his epic film ‘Bardo’, virtual reality, and battling Trump the ‘orange monster’

Alejandro González Iñárritu is on a mission to ‘liberate cinema’ from the boundaries of reality and tell new stories about Mexico, migrants, and life itself along the way, starting with his surreal new Netflix film, the director tells Josh Marcus

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Disquieting England competence and insouciant genius from France

In today’s Football Daily: England, France and Arsène Wenger … oh Arsène

Los Angeles Times

Review: A critic takes a second look at Alejandro G. Iñárritu's 'Bardo' — and is thankful he did

It's no surprise — perhaps it was even inevitable — that one of the more widely criticized scenes in "Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths," Alejandro G. Iñárritu's magnificent and maddening new movie, would feature an artist confronting his most outspoken critic.

The Guardian - UK

Grace Ndiritu’s invitation to ‘shamanic journeys’ wins Jarman award

The artist’s interest in esoteric spirituality used to provoke art-world ridicule. That is changing, along with the mind of a Foreign Office staffer who attended one of her performances

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