Updated July 11, 2026 at 5:40 PM EDT A film adaptation of Azar Nafisi's critically praised, worldwide bestselling memoir, Reading Lolita in Tehran, is now in theatres. The film, directed by Eran Riklis, follows a group of women meeting clandestinely in revolutionary Iran during the mid-1990s, to read forbidden books. Gathering in Nafisi's home, they read Western classics, such as Madame Bovary, The Great Gatsby, Pride and Prejudice, and Lolita.