Kaveh Akbar, Sally Rooney, and Political Paralysis in Contemporary Fiction
Lit Hub · 13 Nov 2026

Kaveh Akbar, Sally Rooney, and Political Paralysis in Contemporary Fiction

In Martyr!, Kaveh Akbar’s debut novel, the Iranian-American poet Cyrus Shams is trying to write a book about martyrdom.


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