Fiction Archives

1 October, 2023 • Salar Abdoh

Salar Abdoh reports from Tehran on the beauty and complexity of Iranian literature that thrives despite warring factions.

1 October, 2023 • Farah Ahamed

In Farah Ahamed's latest satire, one man's misunderstood greatness drives him to take preposterous action.

In Hisham Bustani’s new short story, one man’s religious nightmare brings him face to face with an unlikely public intellectual of his day.

1 October, 2023 • Dina Abou Salem

Caught between Beirut and a town in the Californian desert, Buthayna searches for the meaning amid life’s absurdities.

11 September, 2023 • Michael Scott Moore

Michael Scott Moore channels veteran experiences through a wily cat as an Iraq war vet tries to readapt to life in Calaveras, California.

3 September, 2023 • Malu Halasa

Malu Halasa's story takes place on one day in the life of the family patriarch who confronts memories of assimilation and broken families.

In Ahmed Isselmou's short story, a Mauritanian man struggles to maintain his resilience and perseverance in the face of ongoing misfortunes.

3 September, 2023 • Hussein Arif, Jiyar Homer

In this short story translated from Kurdish for the first time, a young man discovers that his discomfort was suppressing his true feelings.

28 August, 2023 • May Haddad

In May Haddad's story, a conversation between a young girl and her grandmother reveals the fault lines between the generations.

In a modern interpretation of Eros and Thanatos, "Kill Yusuf" reveals how thwarted love can lead to unexpected consequences.

2 July, 2023 • Malu Halasa

TMR's literary editor introduces the 2023 double summer literary issue.

Can a man who loves a woman prove his mettle by taking proper care of a cactus that stings him with its spines?

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