Read Dangerously:
The Subversive Power of Literature in Troubled Times

Azar Nafisi

Azar Nafisi is the author of the multi-award-winning New York Times bestseller Reading Lolita in Tehran, as well as Things I’ve Been Silent About, The Republic of Imagination, and That Other World. Formerly a Fellow at Johns Hopkins University’s Foreign Policy Institute, she has taught at Oxford and several universities in Tehran. She lives in Washington, D.C.

Jeffrey Brown

Jeffrey Brown is author of The News and Peabody Award-winning Senior Correspondent and Chief Arts Correspondent for PBS NewsHour, public television’s prestigious nightly news program viewed by millions. In a career spanning more than thirty years at the NewsHour, Brown has interviewed numerous leading American and international newsmakers, moderated studio discussions on a vast array of topics, and reported from across the United States and other regions of the globe. In addition, he leads the NewsHour’s extensive coverage of arts and culture “Canvas,” hosts the monthly book club, “Now Read This,” a collaboration with The New York Times, and speaks regularly at conferences and forums. Jeffrey Brown is married to Paula Crawford, an artist, author, and professor at George Mason University. They have two children.

Photo: Azar Nafisi © Stanley Staniski; Jeffrey Brown © Stanley Staniski