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Mohsin Hamid Reads Jorge Luis Borges

The New Yorker: Fiction

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Boorhiss' Infinite Bible

In the moment of reading itself, we become unpure, that there is no way for any of us to contain a text within us and remain purely ourselves. All of these things begin to happen in Boorhiss' work. He might well be avoiding that particular danger by making this sort of an Eastern text. It's possible that he is doing this in part so that it's not a specifically Christian predicament or something that he could be accused of in the context of blasphemy. I don't think it's a simple, he did it for this reason. But for me, what I really enjoy is none of this stuff is flippant or superficial.

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