Emad Mortazavi (b. 1985) is a writer and translator. He has published an essay collection in Persian and has translated nonfiction by Alphonse Daudet, Julian Barnes, and Donald Antrim. Mortazavi has a master’s in aesthetics and philosophy of art from CRMEP, London. He is currently a PhD candidate in anthropology at McGill University.
Photo of Saless Bookstore, Tehran by Sepideh Nazaralizadeh
Many years ago, in the old days of dial-up internet, when I was still living in Iran, I would spend time reading book reviews online, maki…