the persian night

Book of the Week: “You can do anything, Daddy.”

It being Father’s Day, we shall determinedly pick something much, much lighter than The Persian Night: Iran under the Khomeinist Revolution this time around. I have received for my Father’s Day present You Can Do Anything, Daddy, which is a children’s book that features robot gorilla pirates from Mars.

I am proud of the fact that my loved ones instinctively know that this sort of book is a perfect match for me. So: Book of the Week.

Moe Lane

In tune with the generally-more-serious-than-I-personally-like kind of weekend that we’ve had here, we now replace Death from the Skies!: These Are the Ways the World Will End . . . with The Persian Night: Iran under the Khomeinist Revolution. Personally, I’d have preferred something a bit less unfortunately pertinent to current events, but Michael Totten insists that people need to read this, and he’s one of the go-to new media guys on the region.

Moe Lane