Literature

"Nafisi...has a talent for combining the academic and the everyday, the theoretical and the personal, and thanks to her deliberate and confident voice, the lessons [in this book] will stick with us, too." -- The New York Times Book Review

"[Hamid] reminds us yet again that fiction sometimes provides the most direct path to truth." -- BookPage (starred review)

Mei, a teenage girl in 1960s China, becomes Mao Zedong's protégée as well as his lover -- and also a heroine of the Cultural Revolution -- in this captivating new novel.

Discovering books is rarely a problem for me, as I am surrounded by options (perks of working in a library).

I’m a natural skeptic. But every once in a while in one’s life, you experience a confluence of ideas in what you’re reading, listening to, or talking about that has the potential to create a shift in the way you see the world.

From June to December of 2021, the American Library Association reported 155 book censorship attempts.

"Manifoldly clever.... Brilliant.... [This novel] is its own vivid world, drawn from its own folklore. This is a satire with sharper teeth, angrier, and also very, very funny." -- The New York Times Book Review

"Manifoldly clever.... Brilliant.... [This novel] is its own vivid world, drawn from its own folklore. This is a satire with sharper teeth, angrier, and also very, very funny." -- The New York Times Book Review

Every reader has likely experienced the book hangover at some point in their life.

One of the most comforting sounds to me is the iconic dun-dun sound at the beginning of a Law and order episode. In fact, this sound so comforts me that reruns of Law and order are the only television I want to watch when I am at home sick...