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The Elaborate Survey of an Imaginary Comics Artist in Singapore
In The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye, cartoonist Sonny Liew collaborates with a figment of his imagination.
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Drawings that Trace the Contours of Thought
Renee Gladman's drawings in Prose Architectures resemble not-quite-legible script, registering somewhere on the visual spectrum between image and language.
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The Earth as a Dump and Refuge
The Astropastorals, a new collection of poetry by Douglas Crase, brings together two decades of material in 18 pages.
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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.