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 ...

Throughout cinema's history, many films have been made based on real-life events. They took inspiration from true stories and brought them to the screen in compelling ways.

She found “Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood” by Marjane Satrapi, a memoir about coming of age in Iran during the Islamic Revolution. She read “Rolling Blackouts” by Sarah Glidden ...

The fact that Jerry’s prospective victims are all women might well have tipped the movie into smirky grotesquerie if not for the direction of Perseoplis creator Marjane Satrapi, who gives the ...

Art Spiegelman. (Zipatone/Cargo Film & Releasing) “Maus” was a massive literary success, which helped usher in a golden era for graphic novels that inspired the work of many others, like Marjane ...

It is in these passages that her saga holds the high-lo glitz and gutter appeal of the best immigrant epics such as Marjane Satrapi’s chronicles. All in all, I mourned the end of this universe ...

Art can serve as an essential reminder that rootedness is not to be taken for granted in this chaotic world.

How did Israel, founded by a people who were victimised by Nazism, become an “inhuman victimiser?” asks Pankaj Mishra in his new book, The World After Gaza (Juggernaut). He also questions how ...