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May 9, 2019 |
Ahmad Shamlou (left) | Photo by Hadi Shafaieh. Niloufar Talebi (right) | Photo by Devlin Shand In Self-Portrait in Bloom, Niloufar Talebi (www.niloufartalebi.com) tells her story of gro... -
July 20, 2017 |
Iranian mathematician Maryam Mirzakhani died of breast cancer on July 15 at the age of 40. A professor at Stanford University, Mirzakhani became the first woman to win the prestigious Fields Meda... -
April 12, 2017 |
Attar’s The Conference of the Birds, just released in a new translation, is a deeply meaningful and spiritual work, delightfully packed with lively banter, pathos, clever hyperbole, cheek... -
August 21, 2015 |
Mia Couto. Photo by Shevaun Williams. News, Reviews, and Interviews Online literary magazine The Mantle is starting its own publishing imprint under the same name. Its focus will be on inte... -
May 15, 2013 |New Windows into the Iranian American Experience: An Interview with Anita Amirrezvani & Persis Karim
Left: Anita Amirrezvani Right: Persis Karim Perhaps best known to the American public for the memoir genre, Iranian American literature has expanded considerably since the lat...
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An early novel, L’Écrivain public (The public scribe) is a surrealistic, semi-...
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7.
For about a minute you spin
and the world shifts galaxies.
What germinates in your flesh is...
Ahmad Shamlou (left) | Photo by Hadi Shafaieh. Niloufar Talebi (right) | Photo by Devlin Shand
In Self-Portrait in Bloom, Niloufar...
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May 8, 2019
to Daniel Simon, Editor in Chief, World Literature Today
Dear Daniel,
It is with great...
Tour guide at the Queen Mine in Bisbee / Photo by Scott Durgan / Flickr
Last summer, I spent July and part of August in a straw-bale house in...
