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Porochista Khakpour

Porochista Khakpour
Porochista Khakpour is an Iranian American novelist, essayist, and journalist. She is the critically acclaimed author of Sons and Other Flammable Objects, The Last Illusion, Sick: A Memoir, and most recently, Brown Album: Essays on Exile and Identity.


Porochista Khakpour on the Unrelatable Brilliance of Alison Rose’s Better Than Sane

"She isn’t interested in your ability to feel for her much less comprehend her."
September 7, 2023  By Porochista Khakpour
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Travels with Barbie, From Tehran to Paris to New York

Porochista Khakpour on Loving—and Destroying—a Beloved Doll
May 21, 2020  By Porochista Khakpour
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Porochista Khakpour on Learning to Own the Discomfort of the Body

"To Find a Home in My Body is to Tell a Story That Doesn’t Exist"
June 15, 2018  By Porochista Khakpour
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Porochista Khakpour: Portrait of the Artist as a Debut Novelist

On Debt, Depression, and the Many Ways a Name Can Be Misprounounced
January 27, 2017  By Porochista Khakpour
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Ben Okri: Beyond Myth and Magic

Porochista Khakpour Revistis a Masterpiece of the New African Canon
July 7, 2015  By Porochista Khakpour
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