Tag: Porochista Khakpour

Waiting for Nasreen

April 2013

Two writers discuss their cyber-stalker.

My Mother and the Prisoner

November 2011

A son recalls his mother’s advocacy for a framed man.

The Others

November 2011

Our guest editor Porochista Khakpour explores the protean category of “Iranian-American” and its assorted manifestations.

In Search of Dalí in Tehran

November 2011

Or, how I got advice from Grandpa Moses on Jewish prayers for the notorious Evin Prison.

Camel Ride, Los Angeles, 1986

February 2011

What is there to hate about a camel?

The Deer-Vehicle Collision Survivors Support Group

By Porochista Khakpour, guest-edited by Claire Messud
February 2010

This is the storm right before the calm, she is letting it all out now, because she knows it’s coming. She wants to go home, even if it is what she used to call hell sweet hell.