Biography
Argentine-Canadian writer known for essays on books, reading, and literary history
Sample Works
- A History of Reading (1996) Book
- The Library at Night (2007) Book
- The Dictionary of Imaginary Places (1980) Book
Roundtable Appearances
November 16, 2019 · ▶ Video
Emergence of Empathy: Encountering The Other Through Fiction
The event explores how empathy -- derived from Greek "pathos" meaning "to endure" -- functions through fiction. Coined in 1909 by psychologist Edward Bradford Titchner as a...
Percival Everett, Siri Hustvedt, Yiyun Li, Joseph Luzzi, Alberto Manguel
January 28, 2017 · ▶ Video
The Library as Reality and Metaphor
The event explored libraries across multiple dimensions -- physical, digital, representational -- and their epistemic, organizational, and memory functions. The roundtable opened...
Daniel Goroff, Anthony Grafton, Carol Mandel, Alberto Manguel, Ken Soehner
March 14, 2015 · ▶ Video
Curiosity
The roundtable explores how curiosity has been seen through the ages as the impulse that drives our knowledge forward alongside its risks as a temptation toward dangerous and...
Alberto Manguel, Paul Browde, Edgar Choueiri, Marie Howe, Siri Hustvedt
February 21, 2015 · ▶ Video
Particle Fever / The Quest
The event centered on Mark Levinson's 2013 documentary "Particle Fever," which tells the remarkable story of the monumental search for the Higgs boson, the elementary force...
Sarah Demers, Mark Levinson, Alberto Manguel, Jean Strouse