TEHRAN -- The anthology “Literature from the Axis of Evil” including stories by Iranian authors Hushang Moradi Kermani, Mahmud Dowlatabadi, and Ahmad Shamlu hit the bookstores in the United States.

Published by the New Press publications, the book includes 35 fictions from seven countries including Iran, Iraq, Syria, Cuba, North Korea, Libya, and Sudan, most of which have never before been translated into English.

Editor Alane Mason is convinced that not knowing what the rest of the world is thinking and writing is both dangerous and boring.

Authors included in this anthology are Salah Al-Hamdani, Sherko Fatah, Muhsin Al-Ramli, Saadi Yousef, and Fadhil Al-Azzawi (from Iraq), Kang Kwi-mi, Hong Seok-jung, Lim Hwa-won, and Byungu Chon (from North Korea), Salim Barakat (from Syria), Ibrahim El-Koony and Laila Neihoum (from Libya), and Tarek Eltayeb (from Sudan).