Almost three quarters of a century after it was published, Jorge Luis Borges’ “The Library of Babel” continues to resonate. A year and a half ago, the online magazine Places Journal published a set of ...

n 1939, employed in a small municipal library of Buenos Aires where the oafishness of his colleagues made him weep with daily frustration, the 40-year-old (and still largely unknown) Jorge Luis Borges ...

The most awe-inspiring site on the Internet is one of the least glamorous. “https://libraryofbabel.info/” doesn’t boast images of staggering beauty, or even any ...

A library that contains all books ever written or ever to be written, all but lost within a nearly infinite number of works of meaningless gibberish. This was the concept that philosopher Jorge Luis ...

Google's Tower of Babel-like goal to capture all the world's information in a searchable database conjures up images of Borges' "Library of Babel" from his masterpiece The Fictions, which contained ...

"The Library of Babel" is a short story by Argentine author Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986), that describes a near-infinite library containing all possible 410-page books whose sentences were created ...

Balderston, Daniel. "The Universe in a Nutshell: The Long Sentence in Borges's 'El Aleph'." Variaciones Borges 33 (2012): 53-72. Bloch, William Goldbloom. The Unimaginable Mathematics of Borges' ...

"The Library of Babel" is a short story by Argentine author Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986), that describes a near-infinite library containing all possible 410-page books whose sentences were created ...

People keep asking me if I like bees. I don’t—I’m deeply terrified of their harmless, fuzzy little bodies—but I have what looks like a honeycomb tattooed on my right shoulder. As a disclaimer, I’m not ...

The most awe-inspiring site on the Internet is one of the least glamorous. “https://libraryofbabel.info/” doesn’t boast images of staggering beauty, or even any ...