Year of the Month: Persia on “In the Year 2000!” and Conan O’Brien
In 1993, Conan O’Brien’s good-natured late-night show, Late Night with Conan O’Brien debuted. Conan, a…
What’s Porn Got to Do With It? Persia on Boogie Nights, Orgazmo, and American Obsessions
America doesn’t talk much about porn, but it thinks about it all the time. We…
Year of the Month: Persia on Kismet
Well, Kismet sure is pretty. An Orientalist fantasy that never quite commits to its Orientalism,…