Goli Taraghi in the Times Union

Susan Comninos interviews Goli Taraghi, major voice in Iranian literature who visits Albany today.

"An intriguing time warp exists in the fiction of Persian expatriate author Goli Taraghi. While many fear rising nuclear capability in today's Iran, Taraghi, 74, remains gripped by her homeland's past. Decades after the 1979 revolution that toppled Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Taraghi, in her new collection of short stories, "The Pomegranate Lady and Her Sons" (W.W. Norton, Oct. 23, 2013), continues to chronicle the lives of exiles like herself, who fled to Western countries from the Islamic Republic. For Taraghi, their exodus is a trauma that never ended, but keeps getting painfully re-enacted."

More in the Times Union:  http://www.timesunion.com/default/article/Expatriate-author-feels-pull-of-home-4904546.php

More about Goli Taraghi's visit: http://www.albany.edu/writers-inst/webpages4/archives/taraghi_goli13.html

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The Obamians Reviewed in NY Times

James Mann, child of Albany, has a new book on President Obama's foreign policy team.

Leslie Gelb reviews it in the New York Times:  "Like the best reporters, Mann lets his subjects speak for themselves, then checks their fancies against the facts. He has given us a very good first cut at history."

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