“Let's hope they don't hit Veresk.” That was his first reaction when he heard about the attack on the B1 Bridge. He did not ask where B1 was, nor what
"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)
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A Comparison Between the Babi Yar Massacre in Kyiv and the Iranian Holocaust Through the Poetry of Yevtushenko
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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
