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Niloufar Talebi

Niloufar Talebi is an author, award-winning translator, interdisciplinary artist, and producer.

By Niloufar Talebi:
100 Essential Books by Iranian Writers: Fiction
100 Essential Books by Iranian Writers: Classics in Translation
100 Essential Books by Iranian Writers: Graphic Novels, Culinary Books, & Children’s Literature
100 Essential Books by Iranian Writers: Poetry, Hybrid Works, Anthologies
100 Essential Books by Iranian Writers: An Introduction & Nonfiction

Recent Articles

  • Night With Open Mouth: Two Poems by Zack Lesmeister
    Poetry
    By Zack Lesmeister

    how much time / does the wind give us? / do we still run? / who sends the wind? / does it carry the bombs? / or do they come after?

    Burial Ground
    Poetry
    By Hera Hong

    A girl labelled comfort / wartime ammunition / recalled her father who built / her home on / a graveyard

    Aloeswood Incense: an excerpt
    Fiction
    By Eileen Chang, Karen S. Kingsbury

    The white Liang mansion was melting viscously into the white mist, leaving only the greenish gleam of the lamplight shining through square after square of the green windowpanes, like ice cubes in peppermint schnapps.

    A Lifelong Romance: Reflections on Eileen Chang’s life, work, and legacy
    Essays
    By Shu-Ling Chua

    In honoring ordinary people and gestures, Chang reminds us of things taken for granted, of cramped train rides and eavesdropped conversations, the sounds and smells of cityscapes and markets.

    Sianne Ngai’s Theory of the Gimmick and Why I Feel Bad about Politics on the Internet
    Essays
    By Isla Ng

    I gazed into the gimmick, and the gimmick gazed back.

    The Creative Work of Care: A Portfolio of Abolitionist Imagination
    Essays
    By Rachel Kuo

    Five essays in a new collection from A World Without Cages show us the creative work of movement building.

    Objects
    Fiction
    By Kyle Lucia Wu

    They thought me the oddity, though they were the ones depriving themselves of air. I watched them with the same curiosity that they watched me. How? And why?

    Abolition Is Not a One Time Event: Prison Doulas as Catalysts
    Essays
    By Olivia Ahn

    A visual and typographical essay on prison doulas’ community-care in the face of violence from carceral systems.

    South Asians for Abolition: Diasporic Strategies and Conversations
    Interviews
    By Sharmin Hossain, Mon M.

    In Part Two of a discussion on South Asian diasporic organizing in the movement for abolition, Mon M. and Sharmin Hossain reflect on their histories and positionalities as South Asian abolitionists.

    South Asians for Abolition: Beyond Gilded Cages
    Essays
    By Mon M.

    In Part One of a discussion on South Asian diasporic organizing in the movement for abolition, Mon M. shares three areas of critical work, storytelling, and action to undertake in solidarity with Black and Dalit liberation struggles.

    bốn bạn bán bốn bàn bẩn, ha
    Poetry
    By Benedict Nguyen

    i want to banish the shame/ write it in a book to be banned,/ take the banal, grow a banana/ tree of new knowing

    Bookmarks: Best of 2020
    By The Asian American Writers’ Workshop

    We’re closing out this year with our favorite graphic novels, chapbooks, fan fiction, poetry collections, and novels published in 2020.

    The Home I Dream
    Essays
    By Michael “Safear” Ness, Chanthon Bun

    I miss my home. Although I’ve never seen where it is, I close my eyes and picture every detail it contains.

    Lessons Learned: Building a Police Free Future with Abolition Park
    Essays
    By Victoria X

    I might do something dangerous in that state of mind.

    If We Didn’t Laugh
    Essays
    By Danielle Batalion Ola, Aarthi Haig

    When my mother and I were hopeless, buckling under the weight of our unanswered prayers, she taught me that laughter can be a way of creating our own mercy.

    On Transformation: Self Portraits by Yuxi Lin
    Poetry
    By Yuxi Lin, Aarthi Haig

    The witch was not thorough / with her magic

    icarus
    Poetry
    By Micah Rosegrant

    tell me you knew all along & you reached for / the heavens because you were happy.

    Stone-Eating Girl: From Meena Alexander’s Fault Lines
    Essays
    By Meena Alexander

    What was I when I was not quite in one place, nor in another, just in midstream?

    Insecurities
    Essays
    By Alissa Tu, Aarthi Haig

    NOTTHECRUSH tells me he has a crush on me.

    Self Portrait with Feeling Heart
    Fiction
    By Meng Jin

    These days I’ve grown tired of my heart, how much feeling it has required, and would much prefer to laugh.

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