“Horses,” by Garous Abdolmalekian (translated, from the Persian, by Siavash Saadlou)
The New Yorker · 10 Aug 2026

“Horses,” by Garous Abdolmalekian (translated, from the Persian, by Siavash Saadlou)

A few of us had sat down at a café, our hair singed, our chests crowded with the streets of Tehran—our skins of daylight having turned dark here and there. We were a few horses having no wings, no manes, no meadows. We were all about running, and with casual, soiled horseshoes would sprint out of th


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