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Hisham Matar Reads Jorge Luis Borges

The New Yorker: Fiction

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The Gift of Memory

Shakespeare's memory, from his youngest boyhood days to early April 1616, I offer it to you. It was as though I had been offered the ocean. Thorpe: "I have written a fictionalized biography which garnered the contempt of critics"

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