You might expect a play set in the repressive and oppressive culture of Iran in 2008 to be a grim portrait of blighted lives and occluded spirits. But Sanaz Toossi’s “English,” which won the Pulitzer ...

Unlike casual language learners — say, in a high school French class, or on Duolingo — for the characters in Sanaz Toossi’s Pulitzer-winning “English,” language acquisition feels imperative. Set in ...

While the action moves in a realistic register, Toossi captures the bilingual quality of the text with a neat theatrical device: when characters speak English, they have an accent, either light or ...

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