WHATEVER HAPPENED TO… Hooman Majd, the real estate broker who ended up as Chris Blackwell’s right-hand man at Island Records and Palm Pictures, has penned his second book about Iran, The Ayatollahs’ Democracy, which takes us behind the scenes of the country’s last, controversial election. The Iranian-born Majd, the grandson of an Ayatollah and distant cousin of former President Mohammad Khatami, likens current ruler Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s erratic behavior to a “Persian theater of the absurd.” His previous book was called The Ayatollah Begs to Differ. The New York Observer calls his latest “a timely, insightful, refreshingly lucid tour of this deeply confounding and contradictory land.” (10/26p)
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Sisters doin' it for themselves (1/28a)
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HIP-HOP AT 50
The astonishing first half-century of a world-rocking genre.
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in the catalog game is...
INDIE BREAKOUTS
More independent music rises at the DSPs.
THE GOP CONGRESS
At last, America can focus 24/7 on Hunter Biden's laptop.
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