Leah Mirakhor is an assistant professor in the Department of English at the College of Wooster. Her articles have appeared in African American Review and Studies in American Jewish Literature. She is currently working on a monograph that examines the relationship between American empire, the figure of terror, and the intimate.
CONTRIBUTOR ARTICLES
Fly as Hell: An Interview with Greg Tate
Leah Mirakhor interviews author, musician, and cultural critic Greg Tate....
LSD and Palestine in the Same Season: An Interview with Ayelet Waldman
Leah Mirakhor interviews Ayelet Waldman about her 30-day stretch of microdosing LSD as well as the Israeli occupation of the West Bank....
The Terror of White Innocence: A Review of Hari Kunzru’s “White Tears”
The pathology of whiteness is the foundation for Hari Kunzru’s “White Tears,” a novel that explores the roots and routes of black music and Jim Crow....
The Future Is Here: An Interview with Riad Sattouf, Author of “The Arab of the Future”
Leah Mirakhor interviews Riad Sattouf about the award-winning graphic memoir trilogy “The Arab of the Future” and his career in France....
More at Stake Here Than Beauty: An Interview with Yaa Gyasi
Leah Mirakhor talks to Yaa Gyasi about her new novel, "Homegoing."...
Living in the Aftermath
Leah Mirakhor follows Hisham Matar's search for his father, kidnapped by the Qaddafi regime, in "The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land in Between."...
A Door to Robin Coste Lewis’s Los Angeles
Poet and Los Angeles native Robin Coste Lewis discusses her award-winning collection "Voyage of the Sable Venus."...
A “Loneliness Called Los Angeles”: The Destiny of an Iranian-Jewish Family
"The Girl From the Garden" by Parnaz Foroutan interweaves concerns with patriarchy, fertility, and fate in early 20th-century Iran....
Intimate with the Enemy: Why You Ought to Have Lunch with a Bigot
This collection of essays troubles our desire for intimacy, our desire that others be recognizable, familiar, and our relations with them comfortable....
The Hoodie and the Hijab: Arabness, Blackness, and the Figure of Terror
James Baldwin would not be surprised that the hoodie has become a symbol of racial terror and racial violence after 9/11....
