Table and Teaser

Autonomia’s October 2022 table of contents and November’s articles teaser

Autonomia’s monthly roundup and preview becomes Table and Teaser. The heading reflects a current month’s table of contents and coming month’s teaser of new articles.

October’s table of contents features:

• Two articles of a three-part series about this summer’s assassination attempt on Salman Rushdie. The first part details the writer Rushdie, Islamic dictatorship Iran’s history including its death sentence on the artist and the mystic who sentenced Salman Rushdie to death.

• Part two of my Salman Rushdie report delves deeper into Iran’s conflict, the Valentine’s Day death decree—including its impact on the free press, free speech, the publishing industry, bookstores and August’s assassination attempt.

• Wednesday with Greta Garbo: a review of Miss Garbo’s film The Painted Veil about a sexualized woman in pre-Communist China who marries an infectious disease doctor. The film’s based on the novel by W. Somerset Maugham.

• A review of The Celluloid Closet, the seminal film version of Vito Russo’s…