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Broken Frontier
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Congratulations to
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, R. Kikuo Johnson and Dash Shaw on REA IRVIN'S THE SMYTHES winning in the Best Collection of Classic Material category in the 2025 Broken Frontier Awards.
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Naomi Fry recommends Gwendoline Riley's The Palm House on the New Yorker's Critics at Large podcast, and not just because it's short and the font is large. About 12:30 min into the episode.
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I Need a Critic: One-Hundredth-Episode Edition
The hosts of Critics at Large offer advice on crafting the perfect road-trip playlist, reading in a second language, and how to choose a baby name.
https://www.newyorker.com/podcast/critics-at-large/i-need-a-critic-one-hundredth-episode-edition
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The Paris Review
4 days ago
âI was not interested in creating that rhythm of tension and release in order to arouse. Thatâs what pornography does.â âRobert GlĂŒck
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New York Review of Architecture
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"Latronicoâs prose strips the deluginous images on our screens of their sticky allure, making them appear brittle and dryâan austere triumph of the written word." Niuniu Zhao picks up
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Nothing to do with NYRB but a fascinating article (and we have some crickets fans on staff).
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"It's not really that healthy to have a robot with a personality." Nancy Lemann talks to a new robot for
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. She's loyal to the old one, though. We are reissuing Lemann's Lives of the Saints and publishing her new book, The Oyster Diaries, in April.
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Perplexed by Nancy Lemann
January 21, 2026 â âPerplexity keeps sending me emails. Theyâre all about what she can do to enhance my life.â
https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2026/01/21/perplexed/
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"Tergit refuses to present the Holocaust as the telos of a necessarily failed German-Jewish symbiosis. She never condemns European Jews for not seeing the writing on the wall. She focuses on a way of life rather than its destruction." Review of Gabriele Tergit's Effingers by
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âEffingersâ Review: Days and Nights in Berlin
A 1951 novel traces a German-Jewish family and its fortunes through the generations.
https://www.wsj.com/arts-culture/books/effingers-review-days-and-nights-in-berlin-734850c7
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"an essential reference book for any aspiring (or established!) cartoonist to have in their collection."
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Ayten Tartici will discuss OÄuz Atay's Waiting for the Fear with translator Ralph Hubbell this Sunday (4pm) on Zoom. "These linguistically playful, slightly surreal stories, written in the 1970s, center on the down-and-out misfits and oddballs who struggle to connect with the rest of society."
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Book Club with Ayten Tartici: Oguz Atay's Waiting for the Fear | James Merrill House
Join for our first zoom book club session with Ayten Tartici discussing Oguz Atay's Waiting for the Fear with translator, Ralph Hubbell.
https://www.jamesmerrillhouse.org/event-details-registration/book-club-with-ayten-tartici-oguz-atays-waiting-for-the-fear-1
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Sebastian Uribe Diaz
11 days ago
Nueva ediciĂłn en inglĂ©s de Trilce que aparecerĂĄ a fines de este mes vĂa
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The Hong Kong Metropolitan University Library has a display of Eileen Chang's personal items and archives, particularly those to do with her friendship with the Soong family. Looks like it includes photos of Chang, who might be the most glamorous author in the NYRB stable.
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Exhibition | Museum of Modern Chinese Literature
Presented by Hong Kong Metropolitan University, the exhibition 'Beyond Distance:Â Half a Lifelong Friendship of Eileen Chang, Stephen Soong and Mae Fong Soong'. Museum of Modern Chinese Literature
https://museum.lib.hkmu.edu.hk/en
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"Sometimes the term âlost masterpieceâ proves to be little more than a publisherâs puff. At other times, however, a long-buried book that is dug up, dusted down and branded a classic is worthy of the accolade. That applies to Gabriele Tergitâs The Effingers."
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From riches to rags: The Effingers, by Gabriele Tergit, reviewed
Sometimes the term âlost masterpieceâ proves to be little more than a publisherâs puff. At other times, however, a long-buried book that is dug up, dusted down and branded a classic is worthy of the a...
https://spectator.com/article/from-riches-to-rags-the-effingers-by-gabriele-tergit-reviewed/?edition=us
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"GlĂŒckâs prose is a clever hodgepodge where highbrow references and everyday banter collide, turning theory into gossip and gossip into theory." Lovely little review of Jack the Modernist in Mousse magazine.
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Mousse 94 â Mousse Magazine and Publishing
Mousse 94âWinter 2026 is a contemporary art magazine with contributions from Gabrielle Goliath, Petrit Halilaj, Danh Vo, and Forensic Architecture.
https://www.moussemagazine.it/shop/mousse-94/
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the best book you will ever read about Greenland, truly an incredible memoir / travelogue -- thanks to
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An African in Greenland
TĂ©tĂ©-Michel Kpomassie was a teenager in Togo when he discovered a book about Greenlandâand knew that he must go there. Working his way north over nearly a decade, Kpomassie finally arrived in the coun...
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"You canât really 'discover' Mavis Gallant; you can only join the ranks of people who will rhapsodize, almost delirious, about her once theyâve read her short stories, reawakened to literature, to reading, to words!"
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âThe Uncollected Stories of Mavis Gallantâ Will Make You Believe in Literature Again
https://www.vogue.com/article/you-really-should-have-read-the-uncollected-stories-of-mavis-gallant
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Elder-statesman Edwin Frank was interviewed for an article on the rise in reissue publishing in
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"There became a historical dimension to peopleâs awareness and their cultural commitment."
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6 Small Press Editors Explain Why the Hottest New Thing in Lit Is Out-of-Print Books
As mainstream publishing spirals into sameness, a new wave of reissue presses is resurrecting the strange, the feral, and the intoxicating.
https://www.culturedmag.com/article/2026/01/08/literature-small-press-editors-out-of-print-books/
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thanks to
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you can read the greatest work of literature ever written about battling nazis in the freezing cold (among many other things)
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Life and Fate
A book judged so dangerous in the Soviet Union that not only the manuscript but the ribbons on which it had been typed were confiscated by the state, Life and Fate is an epic tale of World War II and ...
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Broken Frontier
13 days ago
Time is running out! Vote now in the Broken Frontier Awards 2025! Nominees for 'Best Collection of Classic Comics' inc. projects from
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17 days ago
New favorite hat just arrived from
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â itâll serve as an expression of my opinion of the state of things, as well as a way to identify my Labatut homies in the wild
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"...there is no better place to find the materials for that cosmopolitan education in poetry than by reading through the poems that make up the anthology At the Louvre: Poems by 100 Contemporary World Poets, Another review from Ancci in
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The Universal Amplified | ONLY POEMS
The Universal Amplified â A Review of At the Louvre: Poems by 100 Contemporary World Poets, edited by Antoine Caro, Edwin Frank, and Donatien Grau
https://onlypoems.com/blog/at-the-louvre-poems-by-100-contemporary-world-poets
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"Water is a book to read and reread if not through at once, then at least incrementally just like fine, expensive wine." Ancci on Haleh Liza Gafori's translation of Rumi.
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Itâs Always Been Love | ONLY POEMS
Itâs Always Been Love â A Review of Water by Rumi, translated by Haleh Liza Gafori
https://onlypoems.com/blog/its-always-been-love-a-review-of-water-by-rumi-translated-by-haleh-liza-gafori
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And "Lexicon of Comicana" as an example of how to do it right.
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"As every writer is aware, writing is commonly a return to work you have already been engaged in; it is only occasionally the beginning of something new." Amit Chaudhuri on his writing "process."
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Amit Chaudhuri Still Writes His Novels Longhand
Amit Chaudhuriâs novel, A New World, is available now from New York Review Books, so we asked him a few questions about writing routines, writers block, rereading, and more. * What time of daâŠ
https://lithub.com/amit-chaudhuri-still-writes-his-novels-longhand/
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Coming from NYRB to the US in spring 2027.
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London, tonight at 7pm Robert GlĂŒck will be speaking with Andrew Durbin at
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(107 Charing Cross Road). Tickets are ÂŁ10.
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Robert GlĂŒck in Conversation with Andrew Durbin
The legendary author of 'Margery Kempe' and 'About Ed' visits Foyles to mark the re-release of two classics of queer American literature, 'Jack the Modernist' and 'Purple Men 2000'.
https://www.foyles.co.uk/events/robert-gluck-in-conversation-with-andrew-durbin
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Mike Sacks
19 days ago
Well, no surprise, but this is fucking fantastic. Out this April. From the great
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and wonderful New Orleans author Nancy Lemann (Lives of The Saints).
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We're reissuing Richard Hell's Godlike next month. Tonight you can see him in Susan Seidelman's Smithereens (1982) at Quad Cinema (NYC).
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Smithereens â Quad Cinema
Established in 1972, Quad Cinema is New York's original multi-screen cinema.
https://quadcinema.com/film/smithereens/
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"A New World offers a different kind of novel to a different world: local, cosmopolitan, quizzical, inhabited, seen, and felt." Edwin Frank on Amit Chaudhuri's 4th novel, back in print alongside The Immortals and a collection of Chaudhuri's essays, Incompleteness: 1999-2023.
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Our Moments | Edwin Frank
The situation in which we find ourselves at the beginning of Amit Chaudhuriâs A New World is familiar, from life and in fiction: He had come back in
https://www.nybooks.com/online/2026/01/06/our-moments-amit-chaudhuri/
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It's sold out but Lockwood, Batuman, Heti and Riley is a pretty strong panel. Way to go Toronto Public Library.
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What Is Imagination?: Lockwood, Batuman, Heti and Riley
Four of today's most acclaimed writers visit the Salon to explore the nature of imagination.
https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/what-is-imagination-lockwood-batuman-heti-and-riley-tickets-1974936293618?aff=oddtdtcreator
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"Driver is a welcome addition to our strangely threadbare library of readable books about work." Another great review for Mattia Filice's Driver, translated by Jacques Houis. Why they are all coming from Britain?
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Driver â real life on the railways, by a man who actually drives a train
French train driver turned author Mattia Filice ably steers a free-verse novel about his work that is both original and enjoyable
https://www.ft.com/content/725b659a-a034-4891-a9b9-1a7d0b244291
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Levi Stahl
24 days ago
Exceptional book post today. If youâre not already a Nancy Lemann fan, 2026 could be your year.
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will publish her first new novel in a couple of decades in April, while also bringing back Lives of the Saints. This is the good stuff, friends.
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JacquiWine
22 days ago
From the archive for Eleanor Perényi,
#BornOnThisDay
in 1918, my thoughts on MORE WAS LOST, a remarkable memoir on the author's life with a Hungarian baron in the run-up to
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Thanks NYRB Classics for reissuing this thoroughly captivating gem!
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More Was Lost by Eleanor Perényi
First published in 1946 (and now back in print courtesy of NYRB Classics), More Was Lost is a remarkable memoir by the American-born writer, editor and keen gardener, Eleanor PerĂ©nyi. In essence, tâŠ
https://jacquiwine.wordpress.com/2019/02/19/more-was-lost-by-eleanor-perenyi/
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"Recognizing our duty to one another will be a hard sell in a world where we have been encouraged to think only about our own convenience and interests." Jennifer Szalai on Omri Boehm's Radical Universalism.
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A Philosopher Gives the Old Idea of Universalism a Radical New Spin
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/30/books/review/radical-universalism-omri-boehm.html
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Orange County Review of Books
30 days ago
"Chateaubriandâs life was, as he says of RĂ©camierâs, 'at once so impressive and so secluded.'â Eric Byrd reviews the third installment of his MEMOIRS FROM BEYOND THE GRAVE (
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Memoirs from Beyond the Grave: 1815â1830
Memoirs from Beyond the Grave: 1815â1830 By François-RenĂ© de Chateaubriand Translated by Alex Andriesse New York Review Books. 2025. Reviewed by Eric Byrd One of my favorite passages in BaudelaireââŠ
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Public Books
about 1 month ago
For Public Picks, our coâEIC
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recommends Peter Brooks's âHenry James Comes Home,â Solvej Balle's âOn the Calculation of Volume III,â &
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Public Picks 2025 - Public Books
What were the books of 2025 that dazzled, challenged, and inspired us?
https://www.publicbooks.org/public-picks-2025/
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Peter Brooks's Henry James Comes Home is on the PEN America Biography Prize longlist. Congrats to Peter and all the other recognized authors! HJ Comes Home is the story of The Master's 1904 tour of the US and his observations about a much-changed society.
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Announcing the 2026 PEN America Literary Awards Longlists
PEN America is honored to announce the Longlists for the 2026 Literary Awards, which will confer nearly $350,000 to writers and translators.
https://pen.org/announcing-the-2026-pen-america-literary-awards-longlists/
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Michael Hofmann's translation of Markus Werner's The Frog in the Throat made the cut! Humor and pathos from Switzerland. Congrats to Michael and the other authors and translators on the longlist.
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"William Arrowsmithâs [translation of Cesare Pavese's] Hard Labor, first published in 1976, was a revelation: colloquial, risk-taking, full of American cadences. It made Pavese sound modern in English. Kenneth Rexroth called it 'about as good as could be imagined.'"
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Paveseâs Hard Labor: On the Risks and Afterlives of Translation
Hard Labor by Cesare Pavese, trans. William Arrowsmith. 160 pp. NYRB Poets, 2025. $22.00. Few poets are as plain as Cesare Paveseâand few as difficult to carry from Italian into English. His poems m...
https://agnionline.bu.edu/review/paveses-hard-labor/
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@chrispower.bsky.social
wrote a bittersweet review of Soraya Antonius's The Lord: a rich picture of Mandatory Palestine, its independence movement, the consequences and follies of empire, and the unfortunate circular nature of history. It's worth reading.
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Paperback of the week: The Lord by Soraya Antonius
A welcome return to print for this sophisticated, still-relevant story of Palestine's struggle for independence
https://observer.co.uk/culture/books/article/paperback-of-the-week-the-lord-by-soraya-antonius
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David Klion
about 1 month ago
For
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, here's my obituary of Norman Podhoretzâthe last canonical New York intellectual, and the first of a now-familiar breed of discourse demagogue
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The Longest Journey Is Over
With the death of Norman Podhoretz at 95, the transition from New Yorkâs intellectual golden age to the age of grievance and provocation is complete.
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/norman-podhoretz-obituary/
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Making It is a great memoir. We reissued it in 2017 with an intro by Terry Teachout. From our descriptionâ "It is a Balzacian story of raw talent and relentless and ruthless ambition."
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Norman Podhoretz, Influential Editor and Neoconservative Force, Dies at 95
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/us/politics/norman-podhoretz-dead.html
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The Paris Review
about 1 month ago
âHe didnât think it was funny when I told him what I wanted (i.e. to be good & beautiful or at least be in a state of grace, for Godâs sake) and I didnât mean it to be funny.â From Eve Babitzâs journal in our new Winter issue.
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"Guyotatâs captivating work of memory recounts dreams and terrors of childhood, adolescent fear and fevers, and the 'filth of fighting' during the Algerian War...." Pierre Guyotat's Idiocy is one of Herbert's Highlights of 2025. Some NYRB staffers are keen to read Guyotat's early work next.
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Idiocy
By Pierre Guyotat "Pierre Guyotat (1940â2020) was a French avant-garde novelist and playwright notable for his widely controversial and groundbreaking work. His novel Eden Eden Eden was banned by the ...
https://www.newmuseumstore.org/collections/herberts-highlights/products/idiocy
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Trevor Berrett
about 1 month ago
Iâm reading the forthcoming NYRB/Poets release, Emmanuel Hocquardâs Elegies, tr. Cole Swenson. They are absolutely beautiful and I cannot wrap my head around them. Has anyone any tips that can help me get a foot on the ground? If not, Iâm still thoroughly entranced.
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Amazing article on Rea Irvin and The Smythes by Tammi Morton-Kelly in
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. "Each strip unfolds like a stage play: the setting minimal, the dialogue crisp, the humor restrained but precise."
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The Quiet Wit of Rea Irvin: Rediscovering The Smythes - The Comics Journal
Rea Irvin's masterful 1930s comic strip, The Smythes, was not only a product of its moment. It was a quiet act of literary invention.
https://www.tcj.com/the-quiet-wit-of-rea-irvin-rediscovering-the-smythes/
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See what's coming from us in spring 2026.
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"....unclassifiable gem of a book...." Becca Rothfeld on Roger Shattuck's The Forbidden Experiment. "For what this remarkable book reveals is not that Victorâs labored humanization was unique, but that none of us can hope to achieve humanity without the aid of a community."
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Review | This remarkable book about a âwild boyâ reveals what makes us human
âThe Forbidden Experimentâ is about a totally unsocialized child who wandered into a French village in 1800 and the doctor who treated him
https://www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/12/11/forbidden-experiment-wild-boy-aveyron-roger-shattuck-review/
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about 1 month ago
The Ten Thousand Leaves
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"....coyly removing the work from centuries of conversations about taste, lineage, and merit...." not a bad way to write about Joe Brainard's C Comics.
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Joe Brainardâs The Complete C Comics | The Brooklyn Rail
This collection makes clear how much pleasure Brainard took not only in the form of the comic but in the form of a magazine of comics: the collaborative methodology of passing work between friends, th...
https://brooklynrail.org/2025/12/art_books/joe-brainards-the-complete-c-comics/
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Joe Brainard event tonight (6:30) at the New York Studio School (8 w. 8th St.). Bill Kartalopoulos, John Yau, and Tony Towle will discuss Brainard's C Comics, which he made with his poet friends and is a shinning example of artistic play, humor, and collaborative creativity.
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Bill Kartalopoulos, Tony Towle, and John Yau - New York Studio School
Joe Brainard was an artist of many forms but perhaps his most exciting work was the comics he put together with his friends. Ron Padgett, Bill Kartalopoulos, and John Yau will discuss The Complete C C...
https://nyss.org/lecture/in-conversation-joe-brainards-the-complete-c-comics/
about 2 months ago
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