Batman vs. the British Empire (or, the Alfred Mystique)
Russian Intellectuals in Exile
“We Are Fighters to the End of This Story”: PS752, Two Years On
Review: A Hitch in Time by Christopher Hitchens
Review: Assignment Moscow by James Rodgers
Ghost of a Contrarian: Christopher Hitchens’s Letters Revisited
Review: The Russian Job by Douglas Smith
The Beauty of Soviet Anti-Religious Propaganda
Godless Utopia: The Anti-Religious Campaign in Russia (book extract w/ intro by Jennifer Eremeeva)
Godless Utopia: How the Soviet Union Launched its War Against Religion (book extract)
Behind Moscow’s Facades, Legacies of Soviet Atheism
Review: Chernobyl by Serhii Plokhy
What’s Speech Got to Do With It?
Review: Gorbachev by William Taubman
Review: The Unwomanly Face of War by Svetlana Alexievich
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, the Man Who Exposed the Gulag
Underground News in the USSR: The Chronicle of Current Events
From Propaganda to Journalism: Radio Free Europe
Does Iran's Youth Vote Still Matter?
“Rouhani’s Rival is a Mass Murderer” (with Nargess Tavassolian)
Iranian Presidents Series: Bani-Sadr (1980-1981); Rajai (1980); Khamenei (1981-1989); Rafsanjani (1989-1997); Khatami (1997-2005); Ahmadinejad (2005-2013); Rouhani (2013-2021)
Review: Al-Tounsi by Anton Piatigorsky
Curating the Forgotten Gallery
A Proud Jewish Iranian Killed by the Islamic Regime (with Maziar Bahari)
Rafsanjani: The Revolutionary who Negotiated with the US and Israel
Peace Corps Series: From Sioux Falls to Kurdistan; Barry Rosen Before the Hostage Crisis; John Limbert vs. "The Ugly American"; "Tom of Iran"; Poverty in a Remote Province; Love and Learning in Mashhad
“The Skeletons in These Graves Could Change the Future”
Iran's American Friend: William Morgan Shuster (Part I) (Part II) (Part III) (Part IV)
A Long Lunch on Kish: The Disappearance of Robert Levinson
Abbas Kiarostami: The Man who put Iran's Movies on the Map
Scorched Earth: The Secret Cold War Plan to Destroy Iran's Oil Industry
Ambassador James Dobbins: Keep Talking to Iran
How to Talk to Javad Zarif About Human Rights
Ibrahim Morady. the Carpet Dealer who Helped Fool the Nazis
From Krakow to Tehran to Jerusalem: One Jewish Family's Story
Menashe Ezrapour, the Jewish Iranian who Survived the Nazi Work Camps
Revolution Vérité: Playing Iranian History
Review: United States of Jihad by Peter Bergen and The Killing Game by Mark Bourrie
Does Sectarianism Explain the Iran-Saudi Split?
Review: The End of the Cold War by Robert Service
Human Rights at the UN: A Yearly Struggle
The 1953 Coup: What Secrets Remain?
Alois Dvorzak’s One-Way Ticket to a Lonely Death (with Tu Thanh Ha)
Review: Soviet Bus Stops by Christopher Herwig
Paranoia and Subversion: Ambassador James B. Smith on Iran and Saudi Arabia
Iran, the Middle East's Least Anti-Semitic Country?
Review: The Lonely War by Nazila Fathi
"Late Revolutionary Regimes Have Something in Common"
Review: Time Will Say Nothing by Ramin Jahanbegloo
From Homs to Azadi Square: Iran and the Spectacle of Syria
From Enmity to Influence: Iran and Iraq
Siamese Rivals: Iran and Turkey
Islamic Adversaries: Iran and Saudi Arabia
Strange Fiction: Kermit Roosevelt's "Countercoup"
Frenemies by Default: Iran and Pakistan
Isolation Makes Strange Bedfellows: Iran and North Korea
"A Completely Changed Landscape": An Interview with Jeremy Corbyn
From Public Horror to Abolition: Capital Punishment in Juxtaposition
Still Chilled by Khomeini's Ghost
Review: Democracy in Iran by Ramin Jahanbegloo
Review: The Ministry of Guidance Invites You to Not Stay by Hooman Majd
Review: This Great Escape by Andrew Steinmetz
Review: Command and Control by Eric Schlosser
Review: Propaganda by David Welch and Asian Propaganda by Mary Ginsberg
Review: Constance by Patrick McGrath
Review: World Press Photo 12
Review: The Coup by Ervand Abrahamian and Revolutionary Iran by Michael Axworthy
Review: Then They Came for Me by Maziar Bahari
Iran’s Obama Billboard: What it Really Means
Ben Affleck’s Argo Takes Iran’s Revolutionary Themes as its Own
Review: The Iron Bridge by Anton Piatigorsky
Review: Joseph Anton by Salman Rushdie
Review: Intolerable by Kamal Al-Solaylee
Review: A Thousand Farewells by Nahlah Ayed
Review: Londoners by Craig Taylor
Review: The Ayatollah’s Democracy by Hooman Majd
Review: The Inner Man by John Baxter
Photo essay: How to Smoke Opium in Iran
Review: World Press Photo 11