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‘Persepolis’ Author Says ‘a Banned Book ... Is a Good Book’

A CLASSIC TURNS 20

As “Persepolis” turns 20, Marjane Satrapi is still fighting censorship, from the right and the left: “The fanaticism of the liberal is not much better than the other fanaticism.”

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