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"Penick's book recovers one of pre-colonial South Asia's most restless philosophical documents — the ancient Sanskrit story cycle known as the Baital Pachchisi — and carries it, with considerable lyrical intelligence, into contemporary English." The Oceans of Cruelty: 25 Tales of a Corpse-Spirit
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When the dead speaks
The book’s central argument is not stated but enacted: that the original text’s refusal to resolve its own moral questions is not a failure of ancient storytelling but its highest achievement, and tha...
https://www.telegraphindia.com/books/when-the-dead-speaks-douglas-j-penicks-book-recovers-one-of-pre-colonial-south-asias-most-restless-philosophical-documents-prnt/cid/2161778#goog_rewarded
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Tobias Carroll
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At
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www.vol1brooklyn.com/2026/06/24/b...
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Brad Neely on “Creased Comics” and the World of Absurdism
Brad Neely’s body of work encompasses everything from absurdist comic books to a revisionist take on a certain early president; he’s also written about the life of Ulysses S. Grant. His…
https://www.vol1brooklyn.com/2026/06/24/brad-neely-on-creased-comics-and-the-world-of-absurdism/
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Dash Shaw on Don Bluth.
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Of Mice and Men: The Films of Don Bluth | Film Comment
The animator’s dark, nuanced body of work functioned as a counterweight to Disney's brightly-lit dominance of the 1980s and ’90s
https://www.filmcomment.com/article/of-mice-and-men-the-films-of-don-bluth/
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Dorothy, a publishing project
3 days ago
Just sent all the files for our two Fall titles--both beautiful, slender, debut novels--to the printer. Cannot wait to share them with you all in October!
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"Few passages in literature depict the undefeated human spirit with such persuasive force." Brian Patrick Eha on a scene towards the end of Curzio Malaparte's Kaputt when the protagonist, beginning the day in the Regina Coeli prison, ends it in a Neapolitan bomb shelter.
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Suffering Bereft of Despair - First Things
One of the most moving portraits of human faith and endurance I know spilled from the quill of a former fascist. Okay, perhaps not literally from a feather pen,...
https://firstthings.com/suffering-bereft-of-despair/
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Last day for the annual NYRB Summer Sale, which ends at midnight (eastern US). Again, 2 books for 20% off; 3 for 30%, 4 for 40%. Free shipping in the US for orders over $75. We are out of stock of some titles, sorry, but there are lots of good choices.
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Our annual summer sale is happening. Any 2 NYRB, Archipelago, Dorothy, NHE books for 20% off; 3 for 30% off; 4 for 40%. Orders over $75 get free shipping in the US. Sale ends Monday at midnight.
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"In this volume, what makes Grossman a great and unique voice are 'The Hell of Treblinka' and 'Ukraine Without Jews,' where he writes as if nothing could stop him from communicating to the world his horror at what he has learned and witnessed." Bob Blaisdell on From the Front Line.
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The Man Who Saw Too Much
A new translation of works by Vasily Grossman are as powerful as they are essential to read.
https://russianlife.com/the-russia-file/the-man-who-saw-too-much/
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Clare Carlisle discussed her recent book, Transcendence for Beginners, with Noreen Khawaja at the New York Society Library. If you couldn't be there, here's the recording.
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Clare Carlisle, Transcendence for Beginners: Life Writing and Philosophy, with Noreen Khawaja
YouTube video by The New York Society Library
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYaQRv_EgFc
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"'Ooh, that’s her dark one,' enthused a friend upon hearing of the reissue of The Sweet Dove Died." Eric Gudas on trivia, power struggles, and collecting in Barbara Pym's The Sweet Dove Died.
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Exquisite Objects, Exquisite Creature | Los Angeles Review of Books
On Barbara Pym’s reissued novel of desire, aging, possession, and antiques.
https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/sweet-dove-died-barbara-pym-reissue-victorian-appraisers/
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"Grossman's remarkable elasticity of perspective sometimes unsettled his editors; in a single article, he could criticize grand ideas while sympathizing intensely with every living being...."
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on Vasily Grossman's war reportage (From the Front Line).
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What’s New in Translation: June 2026 - Asymptote Blog
The latest from Germany, Puerto Rico, Togo, Senegal, Russia, Norway, Denmark, Uruguay, South Korea, China, and the Faroe Islands!
https://www.asymptotejournal.com/blog/2026/06/15/whats-new-in-translation-june-2026/
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The Walrus
13 days ago
Author
Nathan Whitlock
considers Anakana Schofield’s first three books to be among the best Canadian novels of this century. He expected something daring after 2019’s Bina; Schofield’s latest, Library of Brothel, is even more surprising than anticipated.
https://ow.ly/wjlC50ZaXKV
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Reminder: Library of Brothel is coming to the US in January.
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"Chaudhuri is a master of mundane, hallucinatory moments, calling to mind Rachel Cusk or W. G. Sebald." Hua Hsu picks Amit Chaudhuri's Sojourn as his "pocket read" (books that can be finished in an afternoon)." If Paris, and not Berlin, is on your mind, get ready for Château Rouge.
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What We’re Reading This Summer: Pocket Reads
New Yorker writers name their favorite short books.
https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/what-were-reading-this-summer-2026
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New Diane Williams collection, I Liked Rex, coming from yours truly in September.
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Browse our Fall 2026 catalog, which includes publishers that we distribute in the US: Archipelago, Dorothy, and Notting Hill Editions; as well as NYR Comics, NYRB Poets, and NYRB Kids.
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Nancy Lemann interviewed by the The Hobbyist.
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Nancy Lemann Is Moving Past the Doom
The writer reflects on her surprising resurgence thanks to chic New Yorkers and a new relationship with NYRB.
https://schubethehobbyist.substack.com/p/nancy-lemann-interview
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Amit Chaudhuri is leading a online creative writing workshop from July 4 to 12. Deadline to apply is June 18.
www.ashoka.edu.in/event/intern...
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"[Love and Death in the American Novel] is an incredible repository of vexations, bafflements, witticisms, and brilliancies.... Fiedler is capable of aggravating us but not of boring us. What makes 'Love and Death' so worth reading is also what makes it so worth disagreeing with."
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Why the American Novel Refused to Grow Up
For the critic Leslie Fiedler, the country’s best and worst fiction was shaped by visions of escape from society—and therefore from maturity.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/06/08/love-and-death-in-the-american-novel-leslie-fiedler-book-review
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"For Paul, solitude is inescapable, and something we must learn to embrace." —John Yau reviews the exhibit of Celia Paul's paintings up now at Gladstone Gallery. Her new book, Objects of Desire, comes out in November.
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Celia Paul Transcends Her Own Mythology
She puts her own spin on autobiography, exceeding her own cult status as a monastic artist.
https://hyperallergic.com/celia-paul-transcends-her-own-mythology/?ref=daily-newsletter
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On Renata Adler's commas, and style, the author within the writing.
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In the Matter of the Commas - The American Scholar
For the true literary stylist, this seemingly humble punctuation mark is a matter of precision, logic, individuality, and music
https://theamericanscholar.org/in-the-matter-of-the-commas/
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"The lasting moments are the ones that seem at first the least significant. At one point, Waldrop describes how his brother’s cat would sit by the stove and watch, 'with wide green eyes', as the water that he would splash from his bowl would hiss and steam as it hit the hot stove."
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Quiet magic
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https://www.the-tls.com/regular-features/in-brief/light-while-there-is-light-keith-waldrop-book-review-magnus-rena
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BBC names its best book of the year so far and includes Gwendoline Riley's The Palm House, which "centres on a pair of spiky middle-aged colleagues." We have those at our office, too.
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Kin to Yesteryear: 10 of the best books of 2026 so far
From a darkly comic tale of revenge to a beautiful contemplation on friendship, here are the year's most acclaimed works of fiction so far.
https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20260522-the-best-books-of-2026
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Radz Pandit
27 days ago
My new blog post on Inès Cagnati’s CRAZY GENIE - a sad, haunting, beautiful novel about poverty and a heartbreaking mother-daughter relationship. Translated from the French by Liesl Schillinger.
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John Self
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"Dillon does not seem an obvious candidate for memoir-writing; no chance of him following Philip Roth, who once wore down the “I” on his typewriter and had to have it repaired." Me on Brian Dillon's - third-person! - memoir, Ambivalence:
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Ambivalence by Brian Dillon — a ‘coming-to-be’ memoir of ideas
Covering the writer’s late teens and early twenties, this pleasurable read is an elegant account of self-development through art
https://giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/actions/redeem/831a6362-556a-488f-b1fe-5d58b7356a24
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Jewish Book Council
28 days ago
Join us next week for a virtual evening of readings and conversation with poets Daniela Naomi Molnar and Peter Cole on June 4th at 7:30 p.m. EST!
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Poetry as Witness: An Evening of Readings and Conversation
Join us for a virtual evening of readings and conversation with poets Daniela Naomi Molnar a
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Sonny Rollins
28 days ago
This Friday and Saturday May 29th and 30th, catch WKCR's Sonny Rollins Memorial Broadcast, featuring 48 non-stop hours of the Saxophone Colossus. Listen anywhere at
www.cc-seas.columbia.edu/wkcr/story/s...
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Sonny Rollins Memorial Broadcast | WKCR 89.9FM NY
https://www.cc-seas.columbia.edu/wkcr/story/sonny-rollins-memorial-broadcast
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"What better way of understanding history – especially social or cultural history – than reading a documentary novel like this?" Michael Hofmann (always a pleasure to read) on Gabriele Tergit's Effingers, recently translated by Sophie Duvernoy.
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Michael Hofmann · Let me count the geese: ‘The Effingers’
The Effingers is a remarkable way of rendering history. That said, stasis, being, durée, existence, longueurs don’t...
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v48/n10/michael-hofmann/let-me-count-the-geese
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Rollins kept written notebooks from 1959 to 2010. Sam V.H. Reese edited a selection from it which we published in 2024. It's a look inside the mind and music of the Saxophone Colossus.
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"...style, for Guyotat, is where art becomes politicized, enabling it to hold a plurality of stereoscoped perspectives in tensive union." R. K. Hegelman reviews Pierre Guyotat's Idiocy, translated by Peter Behrman de Sinéty, for
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Pierre Guyotat’s Moral Order
The French writer's fiction engages in a radical egalitarian project aimed at negating the right's nihilism.
https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/pierre-guyotat-idiocy-review/
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"The sax can achieve any color with the orchestra. How often have I been fooled by its oboe-ish sound? And what a variety of tone it has displayed when simulating the sound of the trombone or the brilliance of the trumpet or the color that is open to us in strings" The Notebooks of Sonny Rollins
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Anakana Schofield
about 1 month ago
It’s publication day for Library of Brothel in Canada (US/UK will be Jan 12, 2027 by
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) This novel is REALLY going to need your support. If you “tip it off a cliff“ in literature not everyone will be willing to go with you. So come out for the proletariat and buy a copy.
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"In this strange little gem, Waldrop captures [a] shining light and the shadows it illuminates with a powerful and understated magnificence." —Eric Banks on Keith Waldrop's Light While There Is Light at 4 Columns, which will stop shining its own light very soon. We will miss it.
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Light While There Is Light
https://4columns.org/banks-eric/light-while-there-is-light
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Daniel Pinkwater
about 1 month ago
I became friends with Benny Safdie, who is adapting the book and directing the film, so I know some of his thinking. But I have been told NOTHING about what The Rock is preparing except that it will be great. I have upgraded my healthy breakfast to even healthier to ensure I will be here to see it.
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Tonight. Topics could include: Satyajit Ray & Ritwik Ghatak; national literatures; modernism is India; where Neil Diamond lived in Brooklyn; more.
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Paul Wilson
about 1 month ago
So excited about these 3 new gems from
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"Stilted dialogue is Riley’s métier. Conversation has an exhausted, domestic quality. People talk aggressively past each other, communication persistently fails." —Isabella Gullifer-Laurie on Gwendoline Riley's The Palm House at
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Murky Effects | Los Angeles Review of Books
A novel of desire and domestic disorder amid a disintegrating literary establishment.
https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/gwendoline-riley-palm-house-friendship-london-novel-review/
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"You could go on for hundreds of pages trying to understand how Takano captures the appeal of movement through space on the page. But is that really necessary? Miss Ruki boasts flawless technical execution, but it is first and foremost entertaining and accessible." Miss Ruki!
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Miss Ruki Manga Review | Yatta-Tachi
Adam reviews Miss Ruki, a funny and entertaining manga drawn with alarming technical skill by the long untranslated Fumiko Takano.
https://yattatachi.com/miss-ruki-manga-review
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William Gaddis's J R is #1!!!!
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Nick Holdstock
about 1 month ago
Good way to start the week. Piece forthcoming. Thanks to
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Michael H. Weber
about 1 month ago
Loved seeing Life and Fate on the Guardian’s list of the 100 best novels of all time. Saved from further obscurity & championed by
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, it’s more than just a great reading experience — it’s one of the great experiences of any kind in my entire life.
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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 ...
https://www.nyrb.com/products/life-and-fate
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Joel Pinckney
about 1 month ago
The good folks at
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are having a sale on some great books this weekend. A stellar four books for 40% off (among the ones I've read) would be: —THE PEREGRINE, J.A. Baker —THE SUMMER BOOK, Tove Jansson —HEAVEN'S BREATH, Lyall Watson —BUTCHER'S CROSSING, John Williams
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The Great Outdoors Sale
This weekend only, we’re offering up to 40% off a selection of 55 books that may inspire you to explore the great outdoors. Buy 2 books and save 20%; 3 and save 30%; or 4 or more and save 40%. The sal...
https://www.nyrb.com/collections/the-great-outdoors-sale
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"Seeing Further’s focus on the conditions of viewership drives home its point about a shifting cinema landscape, but it also allows the book to roam beyond the confines of the theater." —Esther Kinsky's Seeing Further (trans. Caroline Schmidt) is reviewed by Walker Rutter-Bowman
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Esther Kinsky’s Celluloid Dreams
In Seeing Further, a novel obsessed with the tactile feeling of arthouse cinema, the sad state of our moviegoing comes into focus.
https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/esther-kinskys-seeing-further/
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Joanna Pocock
about 1 month ago
Just finished Elliott Chaze’s BLACK WINGS HAS MY ANGEL, written in 1953, which is absolutely extraordinary. It’s a visceral & existential noir which had my heart beating so fast at times I had to stop reading. There are car chases, lovers on the run, bank heists, prison time, torture, (1)
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Michael McMillan's Terminal Exposure and Rea Irvin's The Smythes are on the shortlist for Eisner Award for Best Archival Collection/Project - Strips Diane DiMassa's Hothead Paisan on the shortlist for Archival Comic Books. Vote!
www.comic-con.org/awards/eisne...
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Eisner Awards - Comic-Con International
Nominees Announced for 2026 Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards Comic-Con is proud to announce the nominees for the 2026 Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards. The nominations are for works published betwee...
https://www.comic-con.org/awards/eisner-awards/
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"Di Benedetto’s writing lingers in the brain; to a receptive reader, it can feel like a secret handshake between dryly mordant minds."
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recommends The Suicides for summer reading.
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25 Sensational Books to Read This Summer
The Atlantic’s writers and editors have chosen fiction and nonfiction to match all sorts of moods.
https://www.theatlantic.com/books/2026/05/summer-reading-2026/686880/
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Cait_onthe_luce
about 1 month ago
Yesterday's excellent galley mail from
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! Is Beauty Good by Rosalind Belben and I Liked Rex by Diane Williams!
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Mark Krotov
about 1 month ago
A reminder that I'll be in conversation with Amit Chaudhuri next Thursday at Rizzoli Bookstore! Happily reading one Chaudhuri novel after another even tho we're mostly supposed to talk about the essays (those are great, too).
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Broken Frontier
about 1 month ago
Review! Creased Comics – New York Review Comics Collect the Bizarre and Irreverent Cartooning of Brad Neely.
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Creased Comics - New York Review Comics Collect the Bizarre and Irreverent Cartooning of Brad Neely – Broken Frontier
Another worthy example of New York Review Comics’ vital role as an indie/alt/small press archival publisher Brad Neely’s Creased Comics compiles his offbeat gag cartoons, originally published between ...
https://www.brokenfrontier.com/creased-comics/
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Phil Klay
about 2 months ago
Pretty excited about this. Forty-nine Vasily Grossman articles from WWII, from
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