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Mohsin Hamid Reads Jorge Luis Borges

The New Yorker: Fiction

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Mothsmoke: A Sufi Novel

In Boorhiss's own narration of the events, both characters are happy to part with a Bible. So in some senses, you know, there is the possibility that Boor hiss is setting this up as the perfect religious book. But also that in that perfection, in that divine, infinite nature and attraction is something terrifying.

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