Scott Simon speaks with author Azar Nafisi about her new book, "Read Dangerously: The Subversive Power of Literature in Troubled Times." Azar Nafisi says books might not save us from death, but they ...

It’s hard to believe we live in a time when books are routinely banned in the U.S., removed from library shelves and sent someplace where they can’t influence impressionable young minds. Then again, ...

Things I've Been Silent About is the second memoir by the Iranian literary critic Azar Nafisi, author of the best-selling Reading Lolita in Tehran, and it does not begin auspiciously. Before we even ...

While on tour in Seattle for her bestselling "Reading Lolita in Tehran," Azar Nafisi met a fellow Iranian who claimed talking to Americans about books was a waste of time. People with easy lives, ...

Book bans have reached record levels in the United States. The effort to censor and suppress ideas and literature is something that writer and scholar AZAR NAFISI knows all too well. Nafisi watched ...

The title of Azar Nafisi's second memoir, "Things I've Been Silent About," which follows "Reading Lolita in Tehran" (2003), her fierce paean to the liberating power of literature, raises expectations ...

Azar Nafisi is angry, sad and frustrated by what she sees going on in the world. When she feels that way, she picks up a book — not to escape, but to engage. Nafisi, author of the bestselling “Reading ...

NAFISI: I agree with you, but America right now has many traits that dictatorships do in terms of what Mr. Trump and the Republican Party are doing to this country, but apart from that, you notice how ...

Readers entranced by Azar Nafisi's Reading Lolita in Tehran, her 2003 memoir about literature and intellectual freedom in Iran, will be equally fascinated by her new memoir, Things I've Been Silent ...

Azar Nafisi says books might not save us from death, but they help us live. The acclaimed author of "Reading Lolita In Tehran" and "The Republic Of Imagination" has written a new work, and it consists ...