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1 month ago | 
npr.org | Andee Tagle |Navied Mahdavian
So you've done something absolutely cringey. How do you deal with the embarrassment and stop replaying the awkward moment in your mind? Psychologist Ty Tashiro; Eric Garcia, author of We're Not Broken: Changing The Autism Conversation; Melissa Dahl, author of Cringeworthy: A Theory of Awkwardness; and visual artist Pilvi Takala share their advice. Navied Mahdavian is a New Yorker cartoonist and the author of the graphic memoir This Country: Searching for Home in (Very) Rural America.
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Dec 27, 2024 | 
latimes.com | Navied Mahdavian
Navied Mahdavian is a cartoonist and writer. He is a contributor to the New Yorker and author of the graphic memoir “This Country: Searching for Home in (Very) Rural America.”
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Dec 16, 2024 | 
newyorker.com | Navied Mahdavian
The Best Podcasts of 2024Despite industry turmoil, old and new shows continue to innovate, whether investigating Elon Musk, high-school mysteries, or our relationship to death itself.
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Mar 2, 2024 | 
newyorker.com | Navied Mahdavian
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Jan 22, 2024 | 
newyorker.com | Navied Mahdavian
How to take a compliment without inviting misfortune.
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Dec 22, 2023 | 
latimes.com | Navied Mahdavian
Navied Mahdavian is a cartoonist and writer. He is a contributor to the New Yorker and author of the graphic memoir “This Country: Searching for Home in (Very) Rural America.” Opinion When we moved out into the country, we took a shotgun with us and let visitors shoot it for the real “Idaho experience.” Then came a sickening boom in the night. The sofreh cloth meant many things in my Iranian American culture: food, memory and often a death in the family.
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Dec 22, 2023 | 
news.yahoo.com | Navied Mahdavian
Comic panel of a grandmother drawing on a pad for a child, who is wearing a magician's hat and sitting on her lap. My earliest memory of my Iranian grandmother is of her hands. They were soft, the product of years of diligent moisturizingWhen I saw her for the last time, I meant to draw her hands. "It's me, Navied." [Image of hands hugging someone's back]She would draw for me as a child.
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Sep 25, 2023 | 
altaonline.com | Ajay Orona |Navied Mahdavian
Were there any images or vistas in particular that convinced you to make this a graphic memoir? I have a picture of my tiny home—made even tinier—against the most majestic mountains. I referenced the photo multiple times in my book. In some renditions, the mountains are snowcapped, and in others, green, and sometimes the perspective of the house is shifted, but it’s always essentially the same image. Which layer of your own culture shock was the hardest to overcome?
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Sep 15, 2023 | 
lmtonline.com | Navied Mahdavian |Kay Sohini
Princeton Architectural Press. 288 pp. $25.95 - - - Emelie knows what the bird nestling in her garden is called, what her neighbor means when he talks about grazing allotments, what gooseberries look like, and why corn, squash and beans should be planted together. Navied is pleased at the prospect of yelling "Git off my property" to wildlife encroaching on his land, unintentionally sets off a chimney fire, is reluctant to use a chain saw and is profoundly uncomfortable at the prospect of hunting.
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Sep 12, 2023 | 
latimes.com | Navied Mahdavian
Navied Mahdavian is a cartoonist and writer. He is a contributor to the New Yorker and author of the graphic memoir “This Country: Searching for Home in (Very) Rural America.”
