A look at the short story “Forty-Eight Steps” by Paxima Mojavezi in the anthology International Short Stories, Penguin Books, 2026
My Husband’s Down Pillow is a novel by Fatemeh Zarei, an Iranian author based in Washington, D.C., published in recent months by Asemana Publishing in Toronto. This 196-page work is
Once you become entangled in Samuel Beckett’s writing, you remain entangled—always. His late works Company (1980), Ill Seen Ill Said (1981)
If we were to distill Nabokov’s theology into a single principle, it would be this: “Cruelty is, above all, inattention.” In Nabokov’s world
In the fourth installment of the series “Filicide in Modern Persian Short Fiction”, we turn to a story by one of the third-generation Iranian fiction writers: the short story “The
Taghvai published his short story collection That Same Summer in 1969. The stories are set in southern Iran, and in terms of narrative style and choice of language, they bear
My Uncle Napoleon, even after half a century, continues to attract attention and spark debate.
If Büchner conceives madness as the product of military oppression and humiliation, and Herzog transforms it into an existential nightmare, then Mehrjui portrays it as a symptom of cultural rupture—a
The novel Pedro Páramo portrays the tragedy of the downfall and decay of people trapped in a cycle of political and religious domination.