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The Second Life: On Translating Literature Into Farsi and Life into English

The Second Life: On Translating Literature Into Farsi and Life into English

Moeen Farrokhi Considers the Spaces Between Language and Experience

By Moeen Farrokhi | April 11, 2025

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Moeen Farrokhi Recalls Grieving a Mentor While Traversing a Linguistic Labyrinth

By Moeen Farrokhi | November 1, 2023

How David Foster Wallace Anticipated Netflix’s Digital Gatekeeping

How David Foster Wallace Anticipated Netflix’s Digital Gatekeeping

Stuart Jeffries on the Algorithm and the Illusion of Choice

By Stuart Jeffries | November 1, 2021

A Brief Survey of Men Having Opinions About What Women Are Reading

A Brief Survey of Men Having Opinions About What Women Are Reading

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By Sophie Vershbow | October 8, 2021

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Rachel Greenwald Smith on the Treacherous Common Territories of Literary Culture and Capitalism

By Rachel Greenwald Smith | August 20, 2021

The Fraught Task of Describing Life with David Foster Wallace

The Fraught Task of Describing Life with David Foster Wallace

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