In Martyr, an amazing funny fable, mythic in its proportions, about a queer American-Iranian former addict, by Kaveh Akbar, the main character, Cyrus, remembers an ‘old-school Muslim fairy tale, maybe it was a discarded hadith I guess, but it was all about the first time Satan sees Adam’. After surveying the first man thoroughly externally ‘like … Continue reading In ‘Martyr’, the main character, Cyrus, learns to love as a queer man. This is a blog about Kaveh Akbar (2024) ‘Martyr’.