In his infamous short story The Library of Babel, author Jorge Luis Borges presents readers with an interesting thought experiment. The story is centered around fictional library that contains every ...

Tower of Babel. Argentinian artist Marta Minujin has created an 82-foot tall “Tower of Babel” in Buenos Aires after the city was named UNESCO’s World Book Capital for 2011. Readers, libraries, and 50 ...

Editor's note: This segment was rebroadcast on Aug. 30, 2023. Click here for that audio. On a balmy summer evening this August, fantasy fans are lined up outside the Brattle Theatre in Cambridge, Mass ...

Let’s say you want to make a mindbogglingly huge collection of books — say, every book ever — you could do worse than play by the rules set out in Jorge Luis Borges’ short story The Library of Babel.

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 ...

After spending five years in her award-winning world of “The Poppy War” trilogy, New Haven author R. F. Kuang is releasing a new fantasy novel exploring the magic of language. Kuang’s latest novel ...

In Babel: Political Rhetoric of a Confused Legacy, Samuel L. Boyd offers a new reading of the Tower of Babel in Genesis 11:1-9. Using recent insights on the rhetoric of Neo-Assyrian politics and its ...

Many archaeologists believe the famed tower from the Book of Genesis may have had a real historical counterpart in ancient Mesopotamia. The Book of Genesis tells of an ancient city with a tower that ...

Translation is the key to magic, as Kuang uses her genre to sharpen a historical investigation into colonisation, learning and power Welcome to Babel: the great Oxford translation institute in an ...