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A few years ago, the literary world still liked to imagine itself as slow, selective, and slightly untouchable, but BookTok fiction has made that image feel almost vintage. A novel can now move from a…
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Some writers become famous because they fit neatly into their era, while others matter because they refuse to fit at all. Shahrnush Parsipur belonged firmly to the second group, building stories that crossed political borders,…