Echoes of Shiraz
The Ghazal in the Blood: Persian Poetry and the Novel of Inherited Longing
May 1, 2026
The Ghazal in the Blood: Persian Poetry and the Novel of Inherited Longing
From Hafez’s tomb in Shiraz to the prose of contemporary fiction — how a poetic tradition built on concealment, double meaning, and the discipline of longing teaches the novel what silence can carry.
The Table Set Twice: Persian Food, Nowruz, and the Taste of Exile
April 11, 2026
The Table Set Twice: Persian Food, Nowruz, and the Taste of Exile
How the Haft-sin table, tahdig, and the rituals of Persian cuisine carry an entire civilization’s memory across borders — from Tehran kitchens to Israeli living rooms, and into literary fiction
Writing the Revolution: 1979 Iran and the Lives Caught Between Tehran and Tel Aviv
March 15, 2026
Writing the Revolution: 1979 Iran and the Lives Caught Between Tehran and Tel Aviv
How spy fiction is evolving from Cold War procedurals into something stranger, more interior, and more concerned with what intelligence work does to the people who carry its secrets home.
What Mothers Don’t Say: Silence, Inheritance, and the Mother-Daughter Novel
March 7, 2026
What Mothers Don’t Say: Silence, Inheritance, and the Mother-Daughter Novel
On the literary tradition of secrets between generations — and why the things a mother withholds become the architecture of her daughter’s identity.