Iranians in and outside the country say they’re expecting a resumption of protests tomorrow. July 9th is the anniversary of a day 4 years ago when students at the Tehran University took to the streets protesting against Iran’s Islamic government, prompting a violent crackdown. In recent weeks, students have marked the approach of the anniversary [...]

In Valerie Martin’s novel Property, the disaffected heroine speaks bitterly of the black woman who is her slave. The woman has managed to escape to the north in disguise, before being caught and returned. “She has tasted a freedom I will never know,” Manon Gaudet laments. “She has traveled about the country as a free [...]