Skip to content
  • Home
  • About
  • Contact
  • به فارسی بخوانید

The Writing and The Book

The literature of exile and belonging

Tag: Tehran

Author's Spotlight / June 30, 2026

Around Enghelab Square

One It is the mid 1990s, and I often find myself passing through Enghelab Square. Along that dreamlike stretch of bookstores between the…

Read more
Personal Essay / May 7, 2026

Hashemi Publishing House

The diaries of bookstores The first branch of Hashemi Publishing was founded in 1971 by the late Seifollah Hashemian on Pasdaran Street, and…

Read more

Recent Posts

  • Around Enghelab Square
  • Hashemi Publishing House
  • Bookstores of Iran
  • The Portrait of a Lady
  • I spent a month in Sheila Heti’s head

"What do you do when you cannot leave and cannot return?"

I left a land that wasn’t mine,
for another that’s not mine either.
I sought refuge in inked words, in books I had a place
-Edmund Jabes

To write is to accept the book's promise,
to hold it out to others.

To read is to be taken by the promise,
to let oneself be held by it.
-Edmund Jabes

Archives

  • June 2026
  • May 2026
  • April 2026
  • June 2025
  • October 2024
  • June 2024
  • April 2024
  • February 2024
  • September 2023
  • August 2023
  • July 2023
  • June 2023
  • May 2023
  • April 2023
  • March 2023
Copyright © 2026 The Writing and The Book. All rights reserved.
Theme: Patricia by VolThemes. Powered by WordPress.