The American Book Awards have always carried a different kind of energy from the usual literary prize season, but this year the spotlight feels sharper, louder, and more political in the most cultural sense of…
A single image can sometimes say more than a whole press conference: a bookstore worker being taken away, her posture steady, while the words on her shirt turn into a quiet public statement. That is…
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,…