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"War" by Touka Neyestani: Neyestani received a degree in architecture from Tehran's Science and Industry University, and has been a cartoonist for more than 30 years.
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"Censorship" by Touka Neyestani.
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"House Arrest" by Nikahang Kowsar: Mir Hossein Mousavi, a presidential candidate in the disputed 2009 presidential election, and his wife have been under house arrest with no charge brought against them, since early 2011.
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This Touka Neyestani cartoon, "Media and Power," appears in Sketches of Iran alongside an essay by Iranian journalist Nooshabeh Amiri. Amiri writes about the perils of reporting under Ayatollah Khomeini in the late '70s.
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"Mostafa Tajzadeh" by Nikahang Kowsar: After Iran's 2009 elections, Tajzadeh was arrested and sentenced to six years in prison. His charges included "propaganda against the regime."
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"Nasrin Sotoudeh" by Afshin Sabouki: Sotoudeh is an Iranian human rights lawyer and an advocate for women, children and prisoners of conscience. She is serving a six-year sentence for charges including "membership in the Defenders of Human Rights Center."
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"House Arrest" by Nikahang Kowsar: Mir Hossein Mousavi, a presidential candidate in the disputed 2009 presidential election, and his wife have been under house arrest with no charge brought against them, since early 2011.
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Omid Memarian is an Iranian journalist who moved to the U.S. in 2005.
The summer of 1883 proved to be a pivotal time for American baseball.
A brash German immigrant and beer garden owner, Chris Von der Ahe strode onto the scene to found a new franchise, the St. Louis Browns — a team that would later become the St. Louis Cardinals.
His motivation? To sell more beer. And while he made a fortune, he also changed the sport forever.
O'Brien, pictured here with her parents, Lena and Michael, was born in Drewsboro, County Clare.
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"Men are either lovers or brothers," says Edna O'Brien, pictured here with her husband, the writer Ernest Gebler, in London in 1959. The couple's marriage dissolved when O'Brien began to achieve literary success.
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O'Brien sits with her children, Carlo and Sasha Gebler, in 1959.
When Edna O'Brien wrote The Country Girls in 1960, the book was acclaimed by critics, banned by the Irish Censorship Board and burned in churches for suggesting that the two small-town girls at the center of the book had romantic lives. Oh, why be obscure? Sex lives.
Chris Columbus (left) is a producer, director and screenwriter whose films include The Goonies and Gremlins. Ned Vizzini (right) is the author of books for young adults, including It's Kind of a Funny Story.
Brendan, Cordelia and Eleanor Walker were suspicious from the first. They may be young — Cordelia is 15, Brendan is 12 and Eleanor is 8 — but they have enough worldly experience to know that when a real estate agent says a place is charming and rustic, she means that it's small and has wild bears in the backyard. So when the siblings first hear about the house at 28 Sea Cliff Avenue in San Francisco, they're skeptical. And their caution is quite warranted; the Kristoff House, as it's called, turns out to hold secrets, magic, skeleton pirates and a behemoth who looks like Mick Jagger.
After World War II, America became a superpower. New York experienced a global rise; Los Angeles was sprawling. But in a new book, Thomas Dyja writes that "the most profound aspects of American Modernity grew up out of the flat, prairie land next to Lake Michigan" — Chicago.
