Creative Living: Meredith Clark
From Meredith Clark’s “Residence,” a collection of poems: Leeds The Inside pocket of his jacket. Wool. The wind picked round the owling boats. Found on the wharf: a sheaf of black and white...
View ArticleReview: THE GRAPHIC CANON, VOLUME 3, Edited by Russ Kick
Not all the work here is by cartoonists, per se, but most of it is and everyone here is part of the larger world of the graphic arts. We still live, may always live, in a world that, for the most...
View ArticleReview: ‘Bread & Wine: An Erotic Tale of New York’ by Samuel R. Delany and...
“Bread & Wine: An Erotic Tale of New York” is a curiously disarming story about love. There is sex but there is also love. The matter-of-fact quality of this graphic novel reassures us in an...
View ArticleTHE SECRET LIFE OF WALTER MITTY Unplugged
Here is a comic that attempts to tap into the elegant simplicity of the James Thurber short story. It is a delicate and precise little story: A henpecked husband daydreams he’s a hero while he goes...
View ArticleBook Review: MOUNTHAVEN By B.P. Chamberlain, Jr.
“Mounthaven” is the story of a man on a journey of self-discovery stymied by his own personal set of blinders. Those blinders prove to be a costly problem for him. He seems to be aware of them. He...
View ArticleReview: ‘The Great Detective: The Amazing Rise and Immortal Life of Sherlock...
Holmes investigates Holmes. Art by Henry Chamberlain. It is clear that Zach Dundas loves Sherlock Holmes. A quest to explore how and why the interest in Sherlock Holmes has endured is the subject of...
View ArticleBook Review: ABRIDGED CLASSICS by John Atkinson
ABRIDGED CLASSICS by John Atkinson We can all use a laugh and cartoonist John Atkinson has a unique way to provide that for you with his new book, “Abridged Classics: Brief Summaries of Books You Were...
View ArticleReview: Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness, adapted by Peter Kuper
Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness, adapted by Peter Kuper Guest Review by Paul Buhle Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness. Adapted by Peter Kuper. Foreword by Maya Jasanoff. New York. W.W. Norton, 2019,...
View ArticleInterview: Jerome Charyn on J.D. Salinger, History and Heartbreak
Jerome and Henry discuss writing, history, and J.D. Salinger. Just about any reader has an opinion about J.D. Salinger. In his latest novel, Sergeant Salinger, Jerome Charyn takes that most celebrated...
View ArticleBook Review: ‘Tenderness’ by Alison MacLeod
Tenderness. Alison MacLeod. Bloomsbury. London. 2021. 640pp. $24.49 Editor’s Note: This book is ready for pre-order purchases. Available in the US as of 11/09/21. Tenderness is a feast of a novel....
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