Shohreh Laici

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Shohreh Laici is a US-based Iranian essayist and translator. Her works have appeared in The Millions, Brooklyn Rail, Michigan Quarterly Review, and others. My Room in Tehran Is Called America, the documentary feature/memoir that details her journey from Iran to America and freedom of expression, is forthcoming.

Born in Tehran: A Conversation with Porochista Khakpour

November 12, 2024 Shohreh Laici
In June 2024 Pantheon published Tehrangeles, Porochista Khakpour’s latest novel (see WLT, Sept. 2024, 73). The novel satirizes social media culture and turns the lives of four Irania…
The Patriots: On Reading Becoming in Tehran

November 26, 2019 Shohreh Laici
Photo of Tehran by Xiquinho Silva / Flickr A writer in Tehran incapable of entering the US under the Muslim travel ban encounters Michelle Obama’s Becoming in a beauty salon. Reading th…
Trout Fishing in Tehran

March 2018
Shohreh Laici
illustration: jen rickard blair On the fiftieth anniversary of Richard Brautigan’s Trout Fishing in America, an Iranian writer (and devoted Brautigan reader) considers how he, perhaps ev…