I'm looking forward to seeing this Pulitzer prize-winning play by the American-Iranian playwright Sanaz Toossi. I read her play Wish You Were Here, about five female friends in Iran during and after the revolution, and it was very beautiful, delicate feminist writing from a dissident perspective... This new one, also set in Iran, is about trying to learn a foreign language and losing your own it's using language as a metaphor for the migrant experience. This feels very important given our interest in Iran at the moment, and it stars Sara Hazemi, who was brilliant in A Sudden Violent Burst of Rain in 2022.
I've nearly finished reading Salman Rushdie's new memoir, which I think is some of his best writing since Midnight's Children... The writing is very humble and sparse and honest. There is hurt in it, but he doesn't express hatred towards the man who tried to kill him in 2022 and he's very loving about his family and friends. We are fascinated by people who've been to the brink and come back to articulate their thoughts and feelings...
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