Extremist issues, not the movies, could (once again) be the focus at this year’s Berlinale, and the billionaire broligarch is ...

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When author Kelcey Ervick was thinking about how to tell her writer’s journey at Minnesota State, she decided instead to display her story in the form of short comics and visual art, where her ...

Oswald joined Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group from Ecco in 2021 and took over responsibility for the Pantheon list following ...

European filmmakers are backing an online petition demanding "digital giants comply with European laws and maintain higher ...

And in 2024 came Reading Lolita in Tehran, directed by Eran Riklis, who is Israeli, and adapted from a book by an Iranian author, with an almost entirely Iranian cast. The film premiered at the Rome ...

The Iranian-French author Marjane Satrapi has declined France's Legion of Honour award in protest against what she describes as "the hypocritical attitude of France towards Iran." She published a ...

PARIS – French-Iranian author and illustrator Marjane Satrapi, best known for the graphic novels Persepolis (2000 to 2003) and the 2007 film adaptation, has refused France’s Legion d’Honneur ...

Marjane Satrapi announced on 13 January that she would not accept the Légion d’Honneur, France’s highest order of merit. ‘I cannot ignore what I see as a hypocritical attitude from France with regards ...

French-Iranian author and illustrator Marjane Satrapi, best known for the book and film “Persepolis,” has refused the French legion d’honneur over the country’s “hypocrisy” in its ...