Iman Sultan
Iman Sultan is a writer and cultural critic. Her work has appeared in National Geographic, Al Jazeera, Elle, Harper's Bazaar, i-D, LA Review of Books and many other publications.
Recently reissued by NYRB, Leonora Carrington’s The Stone Door is replete with parables, images, and epigrams that amount to thought-provoking puzzles, resulting in a kaleidoscopic adventure that curlicues and unfurls unto itself, not unlike shuffling a deck of painted tarot cards.
In Gabriel García Márquez’s posthumously-released novel, Until August, a woman visits the island where her mother is buried, a nameless speck off the Caribbean with blue lagoons and herons that call only at night. After laying a bouquet of gladioli on the panoramic hilltop that provides her mother’s resting place, Ana Magdalena Bach returns to the third-rate hotel in which she has booked a room before taking the ferry back home, shamelessly flirting with a silver-haired man in the dining hall. At the age of forty-six, Ana Magdalena has been married for twenty-seven years and has only ever seen her husband naked, but that soon changes when she sleeps with her random acquaintance, who never tells her his name.
