This debut novel centers an oft-overlooked region between Iran and Iraq but is slowed by its didactic impulses.
25 SEPTEMBER 2026 • By Matt Broomfield
As the U.S. bombs Iran, a man's obsessions range from the expected to the absurd in the long...
18 SEPTEMBER 2026 • By Shahab Eddin Pakbeen
A new Middle East is visible through the debris, but not the one dearly wanted by the United...
26 JUNE 2026 • By Amal Ghandour
In a house shaped by war, a child’s question about a mysterious plant opens onto something far more...
8 MAY 2026 • By Erfan Mojib
TMR asked writers and artists what motivation can remain, in times of war, to write or create art?...
10 APRIL 2026 • By TMR
The civilizational supremacy of the West is under threat, insisted U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, in a...
3 APRIL 2026 • By Ayça Çubukçu
A writer imagines Iran one year in the future, after the bombs have stopped falling, and the resulting...
3 APRIL 2026 • By Shahram Khosravi
No one in Lebanon is ever out of the fray, not even those who are very far away...
27 MARCH 2026 • By Amal Ghandour
This month, Souseh answers two letters from readers distressed by the outbreak of war, and notably the cognitive...
27 MARCH 2026 • By Lina Mounzer
Iranians emerging from the rubble of war have their own struggle ahead. But the lessons travel: resistance has...
20 MARCH 2026 • By Nojang Khatami
