Thrilled that the great Jafar Panahi has won the Palme d'Or! I wrote about his remarkable No Bears and the movies he made after his filmmaking ban in 2023. www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
An Entire Society Exists Within Me | Mark Krotov
That Panahi was arrested shortly after completing the film—and that he is now serving out the six-year prison sentence originally handed down in 2010 in Tehran’s infamous Ervin Prison—is an irony that...
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Super excited to make a start on this years @womensprize.bsky.social short list with @jamesbrinsford.bsky.social @4thestatebooks.bsky.social @nussaibah.bsky.social @vikingbooksuk.bsky.social @lizstrout.bsky.social @ariamisha.bsky.social best of luck to all #authors #books #booktok #bookstagram
Walid and his daughters are still surviving but still need our help in Gaza. chuffed.org/project/1253...
URGENT: support twins Seela and Sidra to survive!!
We are Seela and Sidra, we are just children, twin sisters surviving in Gaza. We write this with the help of our buddy, Sister Claudia. Because we ourselves have trouble finding the words to understan...
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I am sort of open to the idea that we should be a country that sends Americans to foreign prisons without a trial. But if that's what conservatives want, we need to build the foreign prisons.
Good Girl von Aria Aber lässt mich meinen Literaturtumblr arg vermissen, ich hätte da sowas von tausend Zitate reingeklopft
Was curious about Debuti-Pod 205 (so far) Most listened to: 1 Aria Aber 2 Karissa Chen 3 Olufunke Grace Bankole 4 Alejandro Heredia 5 Colwill Brown 6 Jared Lemus 7 Kyle Paolette (FT) 8 Maria Zoccola (FT) 9 Jared Lemus 10 Sarah Lyn Rogers (FT) 11 Freda Epum (FT) 12 Lena Moses-Schmitt (FT)
New book thread, this time for the @womensprize.bsky.social 2025 longlist. #WomensPrize Book 1: Good Girl by Aria Aber @ariamisha.bsky.social
ICYMI Don't miss poet Aria Aber on BTC discussing her debut novel Good Girl & everything from Kafka to Celan, annihilation & God, exile within language itself, translating her own book into German, and more Audio: tinhouse.com/podcast/aria... @ariamisha.bsky.social @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social
had the real pleasure of writing about Aria Aber’s GOOD GIRL for the @nytimesbooks.bsky.social. I've deeply admired her poems for years, & this is her debut novel, out this week 🖤 www.nytimes.com/2025/01/13/b...
Sex, Drugs and Clubbing Are a Means of Escape for This ‘Good Girl’
Aria Aber’s exciting debut novel finds the daughter of an Afghan refugee sidestepping disapproval and racism as she dives into Berlin’s nightworld.
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What better way to celebrate the launch day of Aria Aber's Good Girl than the launch of our deep dive into the book together, into questions of exile and belonging, desire and shame, self-erasure and self-discovery? Audio📻🔥: tinhouse.com/podcast/aria... @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social
Aria Aber : Good Girl - Tin House
Poet Aria Aber’s debut novel Good Girl , set in the club scene of Berlin, is a book brimming over with sex and drugs and music, true. But really at its heart it is a book of self-making and unmaking, ...
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rave for @ariamisha.bsky.social's GOOD GIRL at the @latimes.com this morning Once in a blue moon a debut novel comes along, announcing a voice quite unlike any other, with a layered story and sentences that crackle and pop, begging to be read aloud www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...
The Kafka-esque struggle of an Afghan German girl is all too timely
Aria Aber's debut novel, 'Good Girl,' reflects the growing chasm between east and west, the same divide that fuels xenophobia in Europe and the United States.
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some forthcoming 2025 books by women of color I’m excited about!!! in this piece out today in @electriclit.bsky.social 🖤 electricliterature.com/48-books-by-...
48 Books By Women of Color to Read in 2025 - Electric Literature
Books by Zora Neale Hurston, Laila Lalami, Andrea Long Chu, Angela Flournoy, and EL's own Denne Michele Norris are among the most anticipated
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