San Antonio College Library

In October 2016, Azar Nafisi sat down to write a letter to her father, who had been dead for twelve years. That month was the feverish conclusion to a singularly vitriolic presidential campaign; just weeks later, Donald Trump would be elected president of the United States. The years since have been besieged by crises--from the COVID-19 pandemic to a long-overdue reckoning on race in America to the rise of authoritarianism across the globe. Throughout...