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Two Comics Artists Draw Their Ways Through Depression
New books by Keiler Roberts and Sina Grace share accounts of their ongoing battles with depression and their careers as comic artists.
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A World in Crisis: Bending, Quaking, Breaking
The Great Regression, edited by Heinrich Geiselberger, portrays the state of international politics as already hellbent.
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An Art Critic's Independent Gaze
Michael Glover takes nothing for granted in his art criticism; he is not dogmatic, nor does he seem to have axe to grind.
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The 19th-Century French Novelists Who Wove Painting into Their Fiction
In The Pen and the Brush, Anka Muhlstein mines the special relationship between writers and painters in 19th-century France.
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Intertextual Depth in Susan Howe's Debths
These poems collage Paul Thek's art, 19th-century American literature, and a fairy tale to create a fresh understanding of the memory and soul.
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Will Alexander's Celebration of the Possible
Alexander’s poetry is swarming with information from a vast library — like the one lost in Alexandria — that he has absorbed into his bloodstream.
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In Venice, With That Sinking Feeling
The book Migropolis: Venice, edited by Wolfgang Scheppe, examines the migrant and tourist crises afflicting Italy’s fabled “water city.”
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The Blindness of Edgar Degas
His virulent belief system, which led him to cut off his Jewish friends in the wake of the Dreyfus Affair, is unredeemed by his art.
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A Comics Artist Draws on Emotional Isolation and Domestic Strife
In two new comics, Jeff Lemire portrays a pair of families' difficult pasts and the obstacles that crowd their paths ahead.
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Imagine If a Victorian Scientist Studied the Plastic Debris in Our Oceans
Mandy Barker's Beyond Drifting features pollution collected recently on the shores of Ireland, but photographed as if under a 19th-century microscope.
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The Outdated Architecture of Parliaments Around the World
A book by XML is the first to provide a comparative overview of different countries' parliament spaces.
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Self-Immolator: Joshua Marie Wilkinson’s Meadow Slasher
In in his new book of poems, Joshua Marie Wilkinson cuts, nicks, and rips the pastoral to achieve terrors both startling and beautiful.