Listen to Azar Nafisi discuss her new book, Read Dangerously: The Subversive Power of Literature in Troubled Times, with Maureen Corrigan.

Vaccination cards and I.D. will be checked at the event entrance and masks are to be worn for the duration of the event.

Read Dangerously asks what 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?

Nafisi will be in conversation with Maureen Corrigan, author and book critic for NPR's Fresh Air, is The Nicky and Jamie Grant Distinguished Professor of the Practice in Literary Criticism at Georgetown University. She is an associate editor of and contributor to Mystery and Suspense Writers and the winner of the 1999 Edgar Award for Criticism, presented by the Mystery Writers of America. In 2019, Corrigan was awarded the Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing by the National Book Critics Circle.

Register here (registration tickets include a signed book)