Reading Dangerously, featuring Azar Nafisi

This week’s episode inspires and challenges and encourages all of us to embrace the magic of subversive reading. This conversation with Azar Nafisi, the best-selling author of Reading Lolita in Tehran, about her new book, Read Dangerously, is a reminder of what’s at stake for us right now in the US, why we need to engage and not check out, or worse, employ the same tactics as extremists in the fight for democracy. Tune in for an episode that’s political and urgent and necessary—and if you’re not reading dangerously, make the next book on your reading list a subversive one.

ABOUT AZAR NAFISI

Azar Nafisi is an Iranian writer and professor of English literature. She won a fellowship from Oxford and taught English literature at the University of Tehran, the Free Islamic University, and Allameh University in Iran. She is the author of several books including the New York Times best-selling Reading Lolita in Tehran, The Republic of Imagination, and she’s joining us today to talk about a lot of things, among them her newest book, Read Dangerously.