
Other Inquisitions
Jorge Luis Borges · 1952
Borges' essays are indistinguishable from his fictions; both are exercises in philosophical speculation disguised as scholarship or storytelling. Essays on Zeno's paradoxes, Pascal's sphere, the detective story, time. The most intellectually intoxicating essays of the 20th century.
Essays · the Pro canon
The case for it, the case against, and the rest of the canon open with Pro.