March 27, 2014
In the course of telling “The Untold Story of the Iran Nuclear Scare,” the subtitle of his authoritative new book Manufactured Crisis (Just...
Reviews
October 3, 2012
Every structure is organized on acts of exclusion but what is repressed and excluded does not disappear but always returns to unsettle...
Conversations
August 23, 2012
I first met exiled Iranian cartoonist Mana Neyestani at Etonnants Voyageurs, an annual literary festival of grand scale set in St. Malo on...
Opinion
May 29, 2012
"The impact of art is not instantaneous. Art needs people who need art. There is a give and take. There's an exchange. If the society needs...
Reviews
April 3, 2012
Two years a ago, the New York Times printed a short article announcing that First Second Books would be publishing a web comic “about Iran...
Reviews
February 1, 2012
A Separation is a gripping family and legal drama written and directed by Asghar Farhadi that stands as one of the best films released in...
Reviews
December 3, 2011
Shirin Neshat’s latest performance is terrifying to say the least. The cheerful camaraderie among the fashionable and artsy crowd on a...