On Porochista Khakpour’s ‘Sick’, or, When Marginal Identifiers Are No Excuse
A reader will understand and sympathize with the illness and its ramifications presented in Porochista Khakpour’s Sick, but with the unreliable narrator, not so much.
Iranian literature
Of Art and Magic: An Interview with Novelist Porochista Khakpour
Porochista Khakpour talks with PopMatters about her novel, The Last Illusion, which explores what happens when magical thinking consumes a person or even a society.