By
Bindu Bansinath,
a senior writer who covers news, culture, and relationships.
Her work has also appeared in the New York Times, the New York Times Magazine, The Paris Review, and Electric Literature. She was previously an assistant editor at Harper's.
Beloved French Iranian graphic author, activist, and director Marjane Satrapi has died at the age of 56, the Élysée Palace confirmed on Thursday. Satrapi was best known for the graphic-novel-memoir Persepolis, which documented the upheaval of the Iranian Revolution through the eyes of a bold, irreverent young girl living through it.
