An unforgettable horse gallops through the pages of Kaveh Akbar’s best-selling novel Martyr! (2024), but it is a figurative hastening toward failure and the limitations of language that Akbar discusses with critic Pardis Dabashi. In their conversation, Kaveh considers writing both as an escape from the confines of the self and as a vehicle forContinue reading “8.2 To gallop again and again into failure: Kaveh Akbar and Pardis Dabashi (SW)”
Novel Dialogue 