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Mohsin Hamid Reads Jorge Luis Borges

The New Yorker: Fiction

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Borsheis: A Bizarre Fiction

Borsheis is the ultimate globalist, you know, cosmopolitan. He bounces around the world and he's coming to us from a distinctly pre-Wicapedia era. The rulers of the Orkneys were Norwegian yarles. And so it lends an incredible power, I think, to these bizarre fictions,. How could this possibly be invented? Each one has such depth to it.

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