Keyvan Allahyari

Keyvan Allahyari is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Tübingen. He taught on sessional contracts at the University of Melbourne (2017-2021), where he completed his PhD in English in 2019. He writes about contemporary fiction, borders and water.

Works By Keyvan Allahyari

Algorithm Mood
We might, like Ćehić’s characters, brood on our paralysis by the information economy in its seamless loop of sampling, packaging and delivering our private desires to our doors. But what else can we say besides the obvious cultural diagnosis and t...
5 June. 2022
This New Writing
Rowe brings remarkable discernment as she notices what Farmer notices, abstract and concrete – death, insect morphology, marine life – all ‘egalitarian in the designation of worthiness.’ She does so with deference to Farmer’s intense lyricism and
19 Mar. 2021
Nirvana at the Consulting Company
The reliance on marriage to broker socio-economic advancement is as old as the history of the novel. In its rudimentary form, the dénouement of the ‘wedding novel’ loosens up the existing social structures to accommodate a more integrated bourgeoi...
22 Oct. 2020
Forming Fatigue
In relentless succession, Yumna Kassab’s fictions scrutinise the psychopolitics of displacement in a political landscape fortified by a warrant for Islamophobia.
23 July. 2020
The Trouble of Middle Eastern Literature
Middle Eastern writers occupy a particularly jeopardised position on the peripheries of this imaginary, where to exist as a writer presupposes inventing palatable difference in ways that make readers feel special and accepting.
27 Nov. 2019

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Keyvan Allahyari

Works By Keyvan Allahyari

Algorithm Mood

This New Writing

Nirvana at the Consulting Company

Forming Fatigue

The Trouble of Middle Eastern Literature