Borges's King Solomon's Ring

Ishaam Matar: Borges belongs to an older generation of writers in the way that he was feeding off texts, mythology and tales from many different places around the world. He has a little bit of a thousand one nights feeling to it. In the sense that you always get when you read him that you feel that the world is somehow benudged or become a little bit bigger. The New Yorker Fiction podcast is produced by New Yorker.com slash radio hour.