Seven Nights for Summer Nights

This summer, ND is reissuing Jorge Luis Borges' classic Seven Nights, translated by Eliot Weinberger and with a new preface by Roberto Bolaño. Borges, among his many glittering literary facets, was a world-renowned speaker. Seven Nights collects seven lectures that were taped during the summer of 1977 in Buenos Aires. These were later pirated as records, only to be reclaimed by Borges, who edited them for publication as a series in a Buenos Aires newspaper. Alastair Reid, one of the leading scholars of South American literature, states in his introduction: “The lectures are separate literary journeys that we could not take by ourselves. Borges is our Virgil; only he knows the way.”

With subjects ranging from The Divine Comedy to nightmares, these adventures in literary thought would make excellent summer reading -- but if you're looking for fiction or poetry, you can find that too, on our New Titles page. This summer we have new books by JImmy Santiago Baca, NIna Berberova, Roberto Bolaño, Inger Christensen, Yoel Hoffmann, Alvin Levin, Robert Walser, Nathanael West, and Eliot Weinberger.

Whatever you choose to read, we wish you a happy and (literarily) fulfilling summer.