{"product_id":"read-dangerously-the-subversive-power-of-literature-in-troubled-times-9780062947369","title":"Read Dangerously: The Subversive Power of Literature in Troubled Times","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e bestselling author of \u003cem\u003eReading Lolita in Tehran\u003c\/em\u003e returns with a guide to the power of literature in turbulent times, arming readers with a resistance reading list, ranging from James Baldwin to Zora Neale Hurston to Margaret Atwood.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"[A] stunning look at the power of reading. ... Provokes and inspires at every turn.\" --\u003cem\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/em\u003e (starred review)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"Remarkable. ... Audacious.\" --\u003cem\u003eThe Progressive\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"Stunningly beautiful and perceptive.\" --\u003cem\u003eLos Angeles Review of Books\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat is the role of literature in an era when one political party wages continual war on writers and the press? What is the connection between political strife in our daily lives, and the way we meet our enemies on the page in fiction? How can literature, through its free exchange, affect politics?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this galvanizing guide to literature as resistance, Nafisi seeks to answer these questions. Drawing on her experiences as a woman and voracious reader living in the Islamic Republic of Iran, her life as an immigrant in the United States, and her role as literature professor in both countries, she crafts an argument for why, in a genuine democracy, we must engage with the enemy, and how literature can be a vehicle for doing so.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStructured as a series of letters to her father, who taught her as a child about how literature can rescue us in times of trauma, Nafisi explores the most probing questions of our time through the works of Toni Morrison, Salman Rushdie, James Baldwin, Margaret Atwood, and more. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNafisi, Azar:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003eAzar Nafisi is the author of the multi-award-winning\u003cem\u003e New York Times \u003c\/em\u003ebestseller\u003cem\u003e Reading Lolita in Tehran, \u003c\/em\u003eas well as\u003cem\u003e Things I've Been Silent About, \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem\u003eThe Republic of Imagination\u003c\/em\u003e. Formerly a Fellow at Johns Hopkins University's Foreign Policy Institute, she has taught at Oxford and several universities in Tehran, and she is currently Centennial Fellow at Georgetown University's Walsh School of Foreign Service. Nafisi has written for publications that include \u003cem\u003eThe New York Times, The Washington Post, The New Republic, \u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Wall Street Journal.\u003c\/em\u003e She lives in Washington, D.C.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Dey Street Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50717930193170,"sku":"9780062947369","price":20.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_3401967f-28fe-4da0-a0dc-b47564a9b1c5.jpg?v=1734630646","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/read-dangerously-the-subversive-power-of-literature-in-troubled-times-9780062947369","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}