Sick: A Memoir has been featured on The Today Show and in The New York Times, The New Yorker, Slate, Vogue, The Cut, HuffPost, The LA Review of Books, Vice, Bitch Media, Women’s Review of Books, Guernica, Medium, Lenny Letter, The Rumpus, Electric Literature, Paper Mag, AV Club, Girlboss.com, Johns Hopkins Magazine, Tin House, Pacific Standard, Brooklyn Digest, Brooklyn Fans, Berfrois, The Furious Gazelle, Longreads, Kirkus Reviews, The NYPL podcast, and Punctuate, and has made Time’s Best Memoirs of 2018 So Far, Oprah.com’s Top Books of Summer, The Washington Post’s What Your Favorite Authors are Reading This Summer, The Boston Globe’s 23 of the Most Anticipated Book of 2018, Buzzfeed’s The 33 Most Exciting New Books of 2018, Bustle’s 28 Most Anticipated Nonfiction Books of 2018 and Best Nonfiction In June, Nylon’s 50 Books We Can’t Wait to Read in 2018 and 46 Great Books to Read This Summer, Electric Literature’s46 Books to Read By Women of Color in 2018, HuffPost’s 60 Books We Can’t Wait to Read in 2018, Bitch’s 30 Most Anticipated Nonfiction Books of 2018, Refinery29’s Best New Books to Read This Month, AV Club’s 5 Books to Read This June, The Rumpus’sWhat to Read When 2018 is Just Around the Corner, Esquire.com’s Best Nonfiction Books of 2018 (So Far), Autostraddle’s 65 Feminist & Queer Books to Read in 2018, The Millions’ Most Anticipated: The Great 2018 Book Preview, Vol.1 Brooklyn’s 23 for 2018: A Literary Preview for the Year to Come, Book Riot’s June 2018 Roundup, Mind Body Green’s 5 Books You Won’t Be Able to Put Down this June, Fast Company’s June Must-Reads, The Coil’s Books We Can’t Wait to Read in 2016, Book Trib’s Most Anticipated List of 2018, Philadelphia Magazine’s Biz Leaders Most-Read Books of 2018, the Times Herald Record’s Summer Reading Roundup, Maine Public’s Summer Reads Roundup, Twin Cities Pioneer Press’ Summer Reads Roundup, Texas Book Festival’s Lit Director’s 2018 reads, Bestselling Books Today’s Roundup, Bookish’s Summer’s 2018 Must-Read Nonfiction, The Week’s Most Anticipated Books of 2018, Black Nerd Problems’ Most Anticipated Books of 2018, Poets and Writers’ New and Noteworthy Books, Library Journal’s Celebrity Book Club, WOCreads’ 10 WOC Reads in June 2018, and Lit Celebrasian’s June Books by Asian Authors.

Very positive review by Malcolm Forbes:

“Porochista Khakpour flies high on the wings of allegory”

“May 2014 Must-Read Books”

“One of the books Flavorwire has been looking forward to all year,  Khakpour’s latest is a stunning, darkly humorous, and at more than a few points totally heartbreaking novel abut an Iranian boy who thinks he’s a bird after years of torture. We invite you to read it — and help us figure out how one writer can take such a subject and spin it into something you just want to wrap yourself in. An absolute stunner. “

The Last Illusion makes it to Flavorwire’s 15 “Most Anticipated Books of 2014”,  The Millions “Most Anticipated” in their “The Great 2014 Book Preview“, and the Huffington Post’s “30 Books You NEED to Read in 2014.”

Barely South Review interview

Full Stop’s “Situation in American Writing” series interview

The Modernist Society DC reading

NY Times Op Ed Moment video for the 10th anniversary of 9/11

Tottenville Review interview

‘Poets & Writers’ magazine, March/April 2010

Poets and Writers cover