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Even if the Iranian authorities succeed in suppressing the large demonstrations, the opposition might adopt other forms of protest - such as manifestos, strikes and mass resignations by university professors. That is the assessment of Ervand Abrahamian, a professor of history at the City University of New York and author of several books about Iran, most recently A History of Modern Iran (Cambridge University Press, 2008).
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In one of the angriest anti-love songs ever written -- “Positively Fourth Street” -- Dylan places his former lover squarely on the side of the privileged: a tool of and a stand-in for the worst excesses of the capitalist conformist. It’s not only Dylan’s former lover, but also upwardly mobile middle class culture that seems here to be indicted.
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The Times Higher Education Supplement reviews The Cambridge Companion to Bob Dylan. Too restless, omnivorous and single-mindedly creative to sit in university classrooms, Dylan, as Shumway notes, has absorbed “the influence of virtually every sort of American popular music”.
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Foreign Policy posted its 8 Books Ahmadinejad Doesn’t Want You to Read yesterday, and coming in at #1: Janet Afary’s Sexual Politics in Modern Iran. Keep track of some of Afary’s recent articles here >>
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Charles Bamforth’s predictions are coming true; but in the opposite direction. Good restaurants are adding good beer. Beer bars aren’t exactly venturing towards good food. Eric Asimovin the New York Times >>
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Martin Rubin reviews The Letters of Samuel Beckett in the Washington Times.
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Christopher Zingaro The only certainty for summer interns is that paperwork and paper cuts await us. They lurk about every filing cabinet and alongside each fresh stack of paper from the printer. Beware. With time, we, young, innocent interns will realize the tensions and dynamics between members at the conference table. We will figure out […]
Read MoreOne likes to believe that Bob Dylan was being ironic, not prophetic. But as is the case with most things Dylan, one is never sure. If, as the writer Tom Piazza has asserted, Dylan is an exemplary American artist because he embodies contradiction, then Dylan’s appearance in a Victoria’s Secret ad was surely one of the singer’s most American moments.
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