I go over your words again—not today, not now, but through every waking hour and all these days when even our laughter hurts. Your voice comes to me even in
Rereading Shahrnush Parsipur Through the Lens of Magical Realism
A Look at Iran in Time Magazine and a Conversation with Ali Sajadi, Journalist and Researcher of Modern Iranian History and Literature
"The mistake of the one who walks, eats, sleeps, and loves, and then builds a cemetery is greater than ours; it is a first-degree error, a mortal sin." (2019)
A Comparison Between the Babi Yar Massacre in Kyiv and the Iranian Holocaust Through the Poetry of Yevtushenko
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
