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Hisham Matar Reads Jorge Luis Borges

The New Yorker: Fiction

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The Importance of Morality in Writing

There's sort of a deep suspicion running through this story and through everything that perhaps this didn't come from Shakespeare somehow. It seems to me an instinctively probable proposition that all human experience is somehow connected in some level. That would then explain why that boy growing up in Libya, reading Shakespeare is moved by it or somebody somewhere else listening to Chester Kovach means something to them. And therefore Shakespeare in a sense is a genius exactly because of how deeply connected he was to the things that seem universally true and profound and moving.

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