The thing that will astonish you most about Marjane Satrapi's "Persepolis" is not that it is a graphic work published by a major trade house (Pantheon, an imprint of Random House). Nor will it be the...
Like many young Iranians, Satrapi proceeds with a life of well-hidden pleasures, close calls, periodic arrests and constant harassment. The end is a given -- the very existence of the two volumes of '...
Satrapi does an excellent job of defining various types of rebellion in our society. She explores the probable reasons, may they be fear or knowledge, and quite literally, illustrates the consequences...