Author: Afshan Shafi

Afshan Shafi The Nobel prize-winning Polish poet Czeslaw Milosz’s poems are regarded as modern classics. He published his first collection of poems, Poemat o czasie zastyglym (“Poem of the Frozen Time”), at the age of 21. Publisher, Penguin Books A compilation of his selected and last poems from the years between 1931 and 2004 were published by Penguin in 2014. Translated by Anothony Milosz and with an introduction by the great poet, Seamus Heaney, this is a collection of chilling intelligence and bountiful beauty. Having witnessed two World Wars during his lifetime, his verse is marked with a piercing knowingness…

Published by: Canongate Novelist and filmmaker Rebecca Miller’s most recent book of short fiction came out in the fall of 2022. Total is a slender and speculative selection of seven stories. In Mrs. Covet a pregnant mother of two finds herself steadily beholden and almost helplessly controlled by her help, Nat. The mother in Vapors takes her two-year-old for a walk when she runs into an old lover. Memories of the past come rushing back, various passions are uprooted but, ultimately, none can compare to the spiritual love she has for her child. In the cinematically beautiful, The Chekhovians, we see…