Book Reviews
Nicolas Bouvier’s “The Way of the World”
Two Swiss men are at the Iranian border. The year is 1953, just a few months prior to the CIA-sponsored coup. The night is dark. A customs officer emerges from his pavilion and shines his ...
Orhan Pamuk’s “Museum of Innocence”
Orhan Pamuk’s mesmerizing meditation on love and loss in a bygone Istanbul opens with a quotation from Coleridge’s notebooks: “If a man could pass thro’ Paradise in a ...
Ninni Holmqvist’s “The Unit”
Only a Scandinavian dystopia would unravel in a setting “furnished in a modern style and tastefully decorated in muted colors” such as “eggshell white.” And only a ...
February 2010
Animal Farm; or, a Short and Somewhat Political History of Comics in Poland
On the intersection of politics and comics in Poland
His Majesty: The Stomach
Sony Labou Tansi courts the body politic
from “Proud Beggars”
Albert Cossery and Golo slouch through a seedy Cairo
from “King-Ma Has Come”
Wei Tsung-Cheng produces a mock-heroic Chinese political history
from “That Was Happiness”
Blutch charts the end of a marriage
from “Farm 54”
Galit Seliktar and Gilad Seliktar map a soldier's first evacuation
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