{"product_id":"read-dangerously-the-subversive-power-of-literature-in-troubled-times-9780062947369","title":"Read Dangerously","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\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\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Dey Street Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/08\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780062947369\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal Prepub Alert\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/01\/2021 pg. 23\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/29\/2021\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Azar Nafisi","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41574567182517,"sku":"9780062947369","price":23.79,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_2452b8db-f318-458b-8778-091063eb37d9.jpg?v=1643696086","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/read-dangerously-the-subversive-power-of-literature-in-troubled-times-9780062947369","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}