Hurley. But this new translation, commissioned by his estate after his death, has proved controversial. The battle over Borges's legacy in English has become as Daedalian as one of his faux literary essays. It's hard to know where to begin rereading." The essayist Alberto Manguel writes in The Guardian that, "since the first American translations of Borges, attempted in the Fifties by well-intentioned admirers such as Donald Yates and James Irby, English-speaking readers have been very poorly served. From the uneven versions collected in Labyrinths to the more meticulous, but ultimately unsuccessful, editions published by Norman Thomas di Giovanni, from Ruth Simm's abominable apery of 'Other Inquisitions' to Paul Bowles's illiterate rendition of 'The Circular Ruins', Borges in English must be read in spite of the translations." In 2008 the London Society of Authors selected Labyrinths as one of the fifty outstanding translations from the last fifty years. See also Bibliography of Jorge Luis Borges References External links Borges and other 20th century writers. Archived from the original on 2013-5-9. Labyrinths, preview at Google Books 1962 short story collections Fantasy short story collections Short story collections by Jorge Luis Borges Essay collections Postmodern novels Translations into English New Directions Publishing books