From A Read-Along Record To A Profane Tarot: The Year's Quirkiest Crowdfunded Comics
Crowdfunding and comics go well together — in fact, comic artists were doing it before that term existed. This year has been a good one for crowdfunded comics, and we've picked some of the best.
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Source: NPR Book Reviews
The Book Review: The Uses and Misuses of Identity
“Very often, the identity labels we use tell you much less than you might think,” Kwame Anthony Appiah says.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
Our Back Pages: Notes From the Book Review Archives
In which we consult the Book Review’s past to shed light on the books of the present. This week: Emily Dickinson’s letters and poems.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
The Shortlist: A Parade of Francophiles, With Peter Mayle in the Lead
Four new books — from Peter Mayle, Eric Hazan, Mark Greenside and the team of Stéphane Hénaut and Jeni Mitchell — explore the riches of Gallic culture.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
Fiction: ‘In the Garden of the Fugitives’: A Literary Tale of Love and Obsession
In Ceridwen Dovey’s new novel, a wealthy benefactor and his much younger protégée resume contact after a 17-year break.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
Nonfiction: Poetry’s Hanging Judge Tries On a Detective Hat
In “Dickinson’s Nerves, Frost’s Woods,” the usually scathing critic William Logan unearths the historical context behind some beloved poems.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
Fiction: ‘The Garden Party’ Is a Tale of Mismatched Families, a Wedding and Lots of Wine
When the Barlows — eccentric academics — and the lawyerly Cohens meet at their children’s rehearsal dinner in Grace Dane Mazur’s novel, polite chatter soon skids off the rails.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
Fiction: Are Ben Marcus’s Dark and Disturbing New Stories the Literary Answer to ‘Black Mirror’?
“Notes From the Fog” features the author’s trademark humor and a vision of society both devastatingly bleak and seemingly plausible.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
Inside the List: He Wrote a Memoir About Infiltrating the Ku Klux Klan. Then Spike Lee Turned It Into a Film.
Ron Stallworth joined the Klan as a black detective working undercover in 1978. Now his memoir, “Black Klansman,” is a best seller — and an acclaimed film.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
New in Paperback: ‘Unbelievable,’ ‘Improvement’
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
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