So You Haven't Read Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi? This comic is about growing up in Iran during the tumultuous 1980s and the Islamic Revolution. Following the author's real-life events and sharing ...
Steven Marcus teaches a course at Stockton University called “Art and the Holocaust.” So it was probably apropos, Wednesday ...
War is a devastating force that has brought unimaginable horrors. When depicted through animated films, terrible stories from the battlefield take on a haunting power that differs from what live ...
Yorgos Lanthimos’s Dogtooth, the Greek director’s breakthrough film, which was selected for the very first edition of ...
A bold coming-of-age film unlike any other, Persepolis breathes life into director Marjane Satrapi’s autobiographical graphic novel, capturing the events of her tumultuous youth in Iran during ...
Dave Cowen is a left-wing writer, Gabriel Wexler, a right-wing artist. Together, they have created a new graphic novel, ...
A relentlessly entertaining exploration of Iranian-American immigrant life, longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction ...
Davis’s own personal inspirations draw from a variety of sources such as Marjane Satrapi’s “Persepolis” and “Love and Rockets” from the Hernandez Brothers. “I really want the store ...