Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar — Chapters 15 - 24

It’s time for the third installment in our Martyr series, in which your wayward hosts finally return to the closet floor to discuss Chapters 15-24 without revealing the thing we’re all starting to realize about Orkideh and Cyrus and their preternatural connection.  Also in the episode: generational trauma strikes again, Arash is just a horny guy forced by circumstance to perform angeldom, and wtf are Ali and Gilgamesh doing in the woods? Plus! Kathryn’s and Hannah’s thoughts on revolutionary hotties (and non-revolutionary notties) lead to a PROPHETIC discussion of Zohran Mamdani and Dick Cheney recorded over a week before The Day.