Mahmoud Dowlatabadi’s prizewinning The Colonel, previously banned in his native Iran, may finally see print there in a sign of that nation’s continuing cultural thaw. As reported by the Tehran… Read more »

Some prizes are important, and some prizes are just not to be trusted. For instance, a prize where when you win it you, you have to go to Stockholm and… Read more »

With the election of the relative moderate Hassan Rouhani, many in Iran have been anticipating some relief from the crueler restrictions of the Ahmadinejad presidency. And if, as the New… Read more »

We’re extremely proud of our entire list of titles here at Melville House, a list that includes the best books by two winners of the Nobel Prize in Literature, Heinrich… Read more »

While Iran has historically been home to one of the world’s richest and most vibrant literary cultures, in recent years, civil unrest, political pressure, and government censorship have transformed the… Read more »

Despite rising tensions between the governments of Iran and Israel, it seems the Israeli people are eager to understand their neighbors through literature. Samuel Thorpe in the Christian Science Monitor writes… Read more »

A quick-and-dirty entirely individual mental rummaging through the titles and names indicates that things are looking good… Read more »

Well, among other things, you encounter Mahmoud Dowlatabadi’s moustache, Derek Raymond’s devilish grin, and one very lovely, very famous author dressed in drag … Go check it out. (Sorry if… Read more »

Melville House author Mahmoud Dowlatabadi, author of the recently released The Colonel and Missing Soluch, talks about the struggle to publish his novels in Iran and the banning of his work by Iranian… Read more »

We’re excited to invite you to some upcoming events featuring legendary Iranian author Mahmoud Dowlatabadi, who — after a great deal of wrangling with the State Department — has come… Read more »