Event Lectures and Symposia Who Needs Cultural Critics Anyway? (All of Us): Arash Azizi and Celeste Marcus

Date and Location

  • When: Saturday, August 24, 2024

    4:10 pm - 5:10 pm EDT

  • Where: Walter E. Washington Convention Center - Room 204 (Level 2, South Building)

    801 Allen Y. Lew Place NW, Washington, DC 20001

Part of National Book Festival ; 2024 National Book Festival

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What do young cultural critics think about their role in the world, where people have been encouraged to think that critics aren't necessary? Arash Azizi, author of “What Iranians Want” and Celeste Marcus, the managing editor of Liberties Journal of Culture and Politics, discuss the pleasures and difficulties of being writers who explain — and criticize — the world with Robin Givhan.

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