Jorge Luis Borges

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Bloodsuckers, magic realism, and caviar Twinkies

The UFOs, Catholic guilt, and voracious appetites behind my horror-ful life
THE UFOS, CATHOLIC GUILT, AND VORACIOUS APPETITES BEHIND MY HORROR-FUL LIFE
By GUILLERMO DEL TORO | October 21, 2010

Amy Stacey Curtis's Sixth Solo Biennial Exhibit

Time out
Jorge Luis Borges wrote, "Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire."
By ANNIE LARMON | October 12, 2010

Mission accomplished

Isis call it quits with a last-hurrah tour
After 13 years, singer/guitarist Aaron Turner and the band (all New England kids except Ohio native Meyer) have announced that they're packing it in.
By MATT PARISH | June 21, 2010

(10) days of celluloid

From the gridiron to gritty realism at the Maine International Film Festival
Among the many treats at last year's Maine International Film Festival were a future Oscar winner (James Marsh's documentary Man on Wire ) and one of the biggest art-house hits of 2008 (Scandinavian teen-vampire flick Let the Right One In ).
By CHRISTOPHER GRAY | July 08, 2009

Leviathan

Roberto Bolaño's 2666 may be the Great American Novel
Jorge Luis Borges wrote of the desert as a labyrinth without walls or center, unending and inescapable. That's a fair description of Roberto Bolaño's last work, the 912-page opus 2666 .
By PETER KEOUGH | November 11, 2008

Online cameraderie

Photo net gain
It was a photo of six tan friends — lounging around a table littered with bottles and cups on a shady deck, apparently enjoying vodka and lemonade — that spurred Matt Prepost to action in January.
By CAITLIN E. CURRAN | March 05, 2008

Exhibitionist

A collection of fabulous imaginings
Alex Rose plunges readers down little three- or four-page rabbit holes, so we don’t know where reality leaves off and fantasy begins.
By BILL RODRIGUEZ | January 08, 2008

Bell jarring

Schnabel’s Butterfly is the year’s best
So far this year, the efforts to adapt books deemed unfilmable have proved just that.
By PETER KEOUGH | December 18, 2007

The man who knew too much

Philip K. Dick enters the Library of America
Around the age of 13, Philip K. Dick started having a recurring dream.
By PETER KEOUGH | June 28, 2007

Sifting the trash heap

Things I love about the gold and the garbage in comics
There’s an image in an old Warlock comic book by Jim Starlin that sums up a lot of the peculiar, shared pleasure of reading comics.
By DOUGLAS WOLK | June 28, 2007

Free beer

Sam van Aken at Whitney Art Works
There are certain works of art in the face of which the critic must simply bow his head and weep.
By CHRIS THOMPSON | May 09, 2007

Total Knowledge

Local encyclopedists challenge Brittanica to a duel
Whereas Encyclopedia Brittanica tells us that fiction is “literature created from the imagination, not presented as fact,” the Providence encyclopedists behind the Encyclopedia Project ask, "What occurs under the sign of fiction?"
By ALEXANDER PROVAN | March 29, 2006