is the author of , which spent 117 weeks on the New York Times Best Sellers list.
Her newest book, , argues that reading literature, reading challenging, dangerous literature is foundational and fundamental to continued democracy.
Imagination, itself, she says, is a threat to autocracy and totalitarianism. Imagination is inherently, by definition, 鈥渇ree and wayward.鈥�
鈥淚t should be clear by now that when I talk about books,鈥� Nafisi writes, 鈥淚 am not talking about literature of resistance but literature as resistance.鈥�
Azar Nafisi joins us for the hour.
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- Azar Nafisi: The author of six books; her newest is Read Dangerously: The Subversive Power of Literature in Troubled Times
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Colin McEnroe and Cat Pastor contributed to this show, which originally aired April 7, 2022.
