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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

  • Two Poems by Luisa A. Igloria, Poet Laureate of Virginia
    Poetry
    By Luisa A. Igloria

    it’s spring, or whatever / season it is for laughter or slaughter, a // difference of one letter between one state / of being and another

    The Counterfactual
    Poetry
    By Maya Eashwaran

    I’m not proud of what I’ve done. One foot bent in the gaze of the lake as if pleading to be consumed immediately.

    Trans People Have Always Been: A Conversation with Kay Ulanday Barrett
    Interviews
    By huiying b. chan

    “Together we are as mighty as our ancestors up from the dead.”

    Contact of The Bodies: All the Way to Sanwalee
    Fiction
    By Tara Isabel Zambrano

    In that moment who was to say what belonged to me—Munir’s mouth, my luminous skin color, a setting sun, the shady place we were in, I could never tell anyone.

    IMMIGRANT: A DICTIONARY (ABRIDGED)
    Poetry
    By Wen Lim

    REPEAT: you stay up memorizing all the twists and turns of a ‘proper’ / enunciation and still your tongue fails you the morning after, syllables / flopping in your mouth like a dead fish, cleaved in shame.

    Transfigured Landscapes: A Conversation with Te-Ping Chen
    Interviews
    By Rachel Heng

    “The work of journalism is bound up in paying attention and noticing things. That’s kind of how I go through the world, with an antenna up for the unexpected, the beautiful, or the moving.”

    Roadkill
    Poetry
    By Sun Paik

    I would never have to shed my skin / in my leaving.

    Blood, Guts, and Glory : A Conversation with Mary H.K. Choi
    Interviews
    By Lio Min

    “As a writer, as someone who reveals their innermost selves linguistically, it’s lonely not to speak the same language as your parents.”

    “We Must Regard the Revolution as Unfinished”: On the 50th Anniversary of Bangladesh’s Independence
    Essays
    By Nadia Q. Ahmad, Zohora Begum, Aaisha Bhuiyan, Tanaïs, Mahdi Chowdhury, Abeer Hoque, Meherunessa Islam, Samira Sadeque, Ushshi Rahman, Ayesha Islam, Zubair Ahmed, Jennifer Chowdhury, Tanzila “Taz” Ahmed, Fariha Róisín, Mikail Khan

    Writers of the Bangladeshi diaspora reflect on liberation and identity.

    Second Chances
    Fiction
    By Priscilla Thomas

    Your mother always told you stories as she oiled your hair: of her youth, legends and fables, immigration, your father’s business ventures.

    Exploring Black and Asian American Lesbian Archives: Aché and Phoenix Rising
    Essays
    By Jaimee A. Swift

    On making critical connections to the long legacies of intraracial and cross-racial Black and Asian American lesbian organizing and community building.

    Conversations with My Father
    Essays
    By Kate Zen

    The rise of the Chinese Trump supporter

    Imagi(nation) / amygdalē, almond sweets /
    Poetry
    By Nilufar Karimi

    Anahita’s head weighs 10 kilograms. Her hand, extended forward yet / disconnected from the bust, holds a fragment of drapery.

    Sonia Faleiro and the Yearning for Truth
    Essays
    By Madhuri Sastry

    The investigative journalist and author of the true-crime book The Good Girls in an interview about honor, caste, and patriarchy in India.

    Two Rohingya Lullabies
    By Mayyu Ali

    They say singing makes them recall the peaceful time in Arakan, that once upon a time, they used to sing these folksongs freely and proudly

    Please, Get Out and Dance
    Fiction
    By Ysabelle Cheung

    Her grandma had once asked her how you could tell the difference between something that had disappeared and something that had escaped

    My Family Unknowingly Harbored a Nazi Fugitive
    Essays
    By Amir Khafagy

    He was nice to my father and his siblings. But still…

    Putus Telaga | Ruptured Well
    Poetry
    By Kulleh Grasi, Pauline Fan

    Kutenun seikat mimpi / dari telapak pemigi | I weave a bundle of dreams / from the palm of the pemigi loom

    Camera Obscura: Greetings from Jamaica
    Essays
    By Suzanne C. Persard

    When you are a descendant of indenture, even the violence of the colonial archive presents the seduction of finding.

    Triple Sonnet for Dennis Rodman, #91, on my Television Screen
    Poetry
    By Dorothy Chan

    And who could forget / when he declared he was going to marry himself, /showing up to Barnes and Noble in a wedding dress

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