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Mandana Chaffa

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The Art of Questioning: Jacqueline Harpman’s We Were Forbidden

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By Liz Wood, Tobias Carroll Verified, Mandana Chaffa Verified
| Words Without Borders Verified
In most hands, the words “thought experiment” conjure up specters of premise-heavy treatises that require the reader to bend over their pages, head hitting the table as they are alternately puzzled and lulled to sleep. But Jacqueline Harpman’s fiction does none of these things: Though each story is, in its essence, the exploration of a question, or series of questions, to their conclusions, they all somehow manage to entertain us as they speculate.
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A Debut Novel About Individual Agency in Apocalyptic Times

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By Mandana Chaffa Verified
| Electric Literature Verified
Skip to content Interviews Paige Lewis' debut novel "Canon" rejects the binaries that those in power use to control the narrative Screenshot from The Odyssey When I was a proto-embryonic critic, in my painfully awkward junior high school years, my reading was wildly incongruous. Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine to Siddhartha to The Grapes of Wrath to cheap, used Harlequin Regency romances. I had weird middle of the night reveries about what I might grow up to be.
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With the Revolver in the Library: Hélène Bessette’s Twenty Minutes of Silence

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By Hannah Weber, Tobias Carroll Verified, Mandana Chaffa Verified
| Words Without Borders Verified
The title of Hélène Bessette’s Twenty Minutes of Silence artfully contradicts its loud and polyphonic contents. From the opening lines, I imagined it read aloud in what I can only describe as a one-woman fringe performance (the kind I would usually hesitate to attend).
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