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3 weeks ago | 
criterion.com | Kaveh Akbar
Essays— May 13, 2025 Some filmmakers might stage an opus about good and evil with radiant angels and blaring trumpets. But in The Wind Will Carry Us (1999), a masterpiece of lived-in ethical complexity and high spiritual stakes, Abbas Kiarostami deploys no fireworks, special effects, or CGI. There’s barely even electricity. The great Iranian auteur sets the film in a deeply rural location that has been largely untouched by twentieth-century modernity.
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2 months ago | 
elpais.com | Kaveh Akbar |Adam Gray
Esta noche he abierto Instagram en mi iPhone y lo primero que he visto ha sido un vídeo de Rumeysa Ozturk, una alumna turca de doctorado de la Universidad de Tufts (Massachusetts), detenida por el ICE, el Servicio de Inmigración y Control de Aduanas de Estados Unidos.
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2 months ago | 
thenation.com | Kaveh Akbar |Laura Jedeed |Sasha Abramsky |Tanvi Misra
Activism / March 28, 2025 What Will You Do? What’s your “I am Spartacus” move to protect the more vulnerable, the targeted, the invisibled, the next-on-the-list? Ad Policy
Rumeysa Ozturk being arrested byICE.(CBS News)Tonight I opened Instagram on my iPhone and the very first thing it showed me was a video of Rumeysa Ozturk, a Turkish doctoral student at Tufts University, being arrested by ICE.
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2 months ago | 
lesen.de | Colin Barrett |Kaveh Akbar |Margaret Atwood |George Eliot
**LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2024** **WINNER OF THE NERO BOOK AWARDS DEBUT FICTION AWARD 2024**'Beautiful...brings to life an entire world' SALLY ROONEY'Sublime... A thrillingly moreish novel' SUNDAY TIMES*It's the biggest weekend of the year and everything is about to change - the thrilling debut novel from the prize-winning author.
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2 months ago | 
lesen.de | Kaveh Akbar |Ernest Hemingway |Zadie Smith |George Orwell
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • SHORTLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD • ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW'S 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR • A TIME MUST-READ BOOK OF THE YEAR • A newly sober, orphaned son of Iranian immigrants, guided by the voices of artists, poets, and kings, embarks on a remarkable search for a family secret that leads him to a terminally ill painter living out her final days in the Brooklyn Museum.
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Feb 27, 2025 | 
audacity.substack.com | Kaveh Akbar |Danny M. Lavery |Regina Porter |Shalom Auslander
It’s not that I’m in a reading rut but I spent 2024 starting a lot of books I have not yet finished. I will finish them because I am an avowed reading completist but I do not know when. It’s frustrating that I’m struggling to find a book that I want to finish. Is it me? Is it the books? Both? I don’t know. If there was a recurring theme in the books I did finish last year, it was this sense of cringe, of the profound discomfort of watching people make absolutely terrible decisions over and over again.
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Feb 5, 2025 | 
electricliterature.com | Azar Nafisi |Kaveh Akbar
Skip to content Reading Lists These writers blur the line between fiction and reality, challenging how we define and experience literature Meta-theatricality isn’t new—even Shakespeare’s characters spoke to the audience—but it is flourishing in our contemporary landscape. Arrested Development commenting on its premature cancellation. Community putting genre under the microscope. Every season of South Park. Hot priest noticing Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s penetration of the fourth wall in Fleabag...
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Feb 1, 2025 | 
meadvilletribune.com | Kaveh Akbar
This is a list of bestselling books compiled by Tattered Corners New and Used Bookstore, 247 Chestnut St., Meadville, based on local and national sales. Tattered Corners can be reached at (814) 337-7975 or at tatteredcorners.com. Hardcover fiction1. “Onyx Storm” by Rebecca Yarros 2. “James” by Percival Everett3. “Witchcraft for Wayward Girls” by Grady Hendrix4. “Iron Flame” by Rebecca Yarros5. “The God of the Woods” by Liz Moore6. “Small Things Like These” by Claire Keegan7.
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Jan 10, 2025 | 
meadvilletribune.com | Kaveh Akbar
This is a list of bestselling books compiled by Tattered Corners New and Used Bookstore, 247 Chestnut St., Meadville, based on local and national sales. Tattered Corners can be reached at (814) 337-7975 or at tatteredcorners.com. Hardcover fiction1. “James” by Percival Everett 2. “Intermezzo” by Sally Rooney3. “The God of the Woods” by Liz Moore4. “Small Things Like These” by Claire Keegan5. “The Women” by Kristin Hannah6. “The Wedding People” by Alison Espach7. “Wind and Truth” by Brandon Sanderson8.
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Jan 7, 2025 | 
lifestyleasia-onemega.com | Pilar González |Kaveh Akbar |Salman Rushdie
Just because 2025 has started, doesn’t mean we should forget the incredible and diverse literature that came out in the past year. In fact, if you’ve been meaning to update your to-be-read lists or just want to catch up on the best books of 2024, now is the time.
