How Western Books About the Muslim World Fuel War

It didn't take long after the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan for nonfiction about captive or oppressed Muslim women to begin trending on Goodreads, nor for social media users to recommend such bestsellers as Betty Mahmoody's Not Without My Daughter, Azar Nafisi's Reading Lolita in Tehran, and Jean Sasson's Princess trilogy for "insight into what's happening in Afghanistan," in the words of one Reddit user.