Someone wrote in [personal profile] aphanon_meme 2018-08-05 10:05 am (UTC)

Re: ITT: what are you reading

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/10/magazine/american-civilian-hostages-in-iran.html

a hell of a wild ride so far. depressing, but also fascinating and well-written.

jist of it is: wang xiyue, princeton grad student researching eurasian history, goes to iran to try to access its national archives for copies of centuries-old historical texts. and gets arrested as a "spy." his wife, a hong kong lawyer and recent immigrant to the us, fights to get him out.

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