On the final page of Kaveh Akbar’s 2024 novel “Martyr ... writes because it’s the best thing in the world and makes being alive a little easier.” Akbar held his arm up closer to ...

Kaveh Golestan was born in Abadan on July 8, 1950. He was a year old when his family moved to Tehran where he attended primary school. When he was thirteen, he left Iran for boarding school in England ...