Walter Kirn @walterkirn · 28 Aug 2026
Interesting that many of Borges’ stories are what we now call genre fiction. The Garden of Forking Paths (Branching Paths in the Giovanni translation) is a pocket version of a Buchan spy thriller, There Are More Things an explicit homage to Lovecraft, etc. He had the erudition
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