Eduardo Galeano (1940) is a Uruguayan journalist and writer. His most famous work, The Open Veins of America (1971), has been translated into over twenty languages. The following very short story is from his work entitled El libro de los abrazos (The Book of Embraces) (1989), a book of around […]
German author Herta Mueller has been awarded the 2009 Nobel Prize for Literature Herta Mueller’s win is announced was last modified: October 8th, 2009 by mahnaz badihian
HE HAD BEGUN TO READ THE NOVEL a few days before. He had put it aside because of some urgent business Julio Cortázar/The Continuity of Parks was last modified: August 11th, 2009 by mahnaz badihian
No! it’s not like I am craving to be martyred nor do I have an itch to experience the injustice center of Evin prison. No! how can I say it? for example it was the day after Sohrab was martyred when my mom asked us to go to his mom’s […]
“ “He began to talk to me about one of the books I had written, `Song of Solomon,’ and how it had meant a lot to him,” Toni Morrison Last winter, Nobel laureate Toni Morrison received a phone call from Sen. Barack Obama was last modified: November 6th, 2008 by […]
The book takes you by hand to the power, symbolism and beauty of the blade, technically described in all its parts, to the mysterious wind of the great Hindu gods blowing on the hilts, to the sacred word of Islam, to the floral influence of China and, above all, to […]
Winner of Iran’s 2007 Short Story Competition The Ants Which Had My Father Eaten by Ghazvin/ Ali Ghane Translated by H. Bassiri It took half an hour till they brought him, to take him down the stairway two cops were holding his shoulders, I was sitting there in my car […]
In the Mist A play in three episodes By: Ezzat Goushegir … MY ROOM IS EMPTY…THE MAIL BOX IS EMPTY… NOBODY KNOCKS ON THE DOOR…THE PHONE In the Mist—Ezzat Goushegir was last modified: November 16th, 2007 by mahnaz badihian
For any Jack Kerouac enthusiast or On the Road fan, the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of Jack Kerouac’s profoundly influential novel is a moment of literary history to celebrate. True to style, the San Francisco celebrations were held in the famed district that embodied the spirit of Kerouac’s work […]
The Planter in a City Window by Morteza Miraftabi The long and continuous factory whistle echoed throughout the city. A thin muscular man, head up and walking tall, appeared from the end of the street. He passed us by on the street, carrying two green and crimson poinsettias. His hair […]