The present volume is a collection of articles by the noted critic and translator, Karim Emami, on art, cinema, theatre, and literature in Iran in the dynamic 1960s, when culture and society were in the throes of transformation. Emami's insightful and informed commentaries on the literary and artistic products of the era are appreciated for their aesthetic refinement, good judgment, and evenhandedness. They have earned him prominence as an avant-garde critic, and played a significant role in the development of modern criticism in Iran.