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Mohsin Hamid Reads Jorge Luis Borges

The New Yorker: Fiction

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Borsheis's Paradox of Truth

There's incredible humor and seriousness bound up in almost everything Borsheis writes. So he's about to tell us a completely preposterous story, and he's asserting that this one really is true. He's simultaneously telling us that every other story is not true and claims to be true. The impossibility of trying to express what we mean, and yet the utter earnestness of that attempt.

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