The Imagination List
This is a list of books, articles and sometimes videos that Azar is thinking about and recommends. Check back often, as this list will be continually updated. Happy reading!
- Rocking the Casbah: The Gig of a Lifetime that Put Iranian Women Back on Stage
- Embrace The Common Core- IQ2 Debates
- Tim Minchin on the connection between the arts and science.
- David Brooks on higher education.
- William Deresiewicz ‘s “Excellent Sheep”: (The New Republic excerpt)
- GoodReads
- “Krugman: Amazon Is Abusing Its Power and Hurting America”
- “American Schools Are Training Kids for a World That Doesn’t Exist”
I read and discussed Reading Lolita in Tehran with my book group and am happy to see Azar Nafisi’s sharp and voracious mind engaging us once again with her latest book!
I am a 50 year old Polynesian woman born and bred in New Zealand. I am part way through “Reading Lolita in Tehran” while reading this I have felt (and surprisingly so) emotions of anguish, compassion and also excitement for literature through the books referenced with “Reading Lolita in Tehran.” I have read the first five pages of Lolita and could not continue as I felt a barrage of insulting feelings being exposed to the mind of a child abuser encroaching on my mind. My thought is “read Lolita if you dare” not because of some regime that forbids it but in the novel not only the innocence of the child is lost but also that of the reader’s.
I had read about Nabakov himself before I closed my mind to the literal sensibilities we are conditioned to believe. I made it through the book, I was stunned in the end, the subjective nature of the plot has the uniqueness and genius that one should read all the books that are available. Some of the books I had a hard time finding.