Why Read the Classics by Italo Calvino: “Borges essay: one of the two foundational books”
On Literature by Umberto Eco: “the poetics of The Aleph, that magic object...”
Words Are My Matter by Ursula K. Le Guin: “...as surely it should, not only modern astrophysics but Xeno's paradox, Borges's Aleph, and the Mad Hatter's tea party.”