A collection of stories, one of which gives the book its title and is about a hole through which you can see the whole universe at a time.

Contents:

• The Aleph
• Streetcorner Man
• The Approach to al-Mu'tasim
• The Circular Ruins
• Death and the Compass
• The Life of Tadeo Isidoro Cruz (1829-1874)
• The Two Kings and Their Two Labyrinths
• The Dead Man
• The Other Death
• Ibn Hakkan al-Bokhari, Dead in His Labyrinth
• The Man On the Threshold
• The Challenge
• The Captive
• Borges and Myself
• The Maker
• The Intruder
• The Immortals
• The Meeting
• Pedro Salvadores
• Rosendo's Tale

(plus a brief autobiographical essay.)