International graphic narrative
Words Without Borders goes graphic for a month. Don’t miss David B’s “A Bomb in the Family.”
Words Without Borders goes graphic for a month. Don’t miss David B’s “A Bomb in the Family.”
A Soviet science book for children includes some stunning art. A rough translation of the title: Earth Is Still A Long Way Off.
Ask and ye, well, might just be lucky. Keith Gessen ponders Martin Amis’ “five-year excursion through Russian history during the global war on terror.”
The great W.H. Auden had little patience for bourgeois sensibilities. “If it’s romance you’re looking for,” he told a lover, “go fuck a journalist.”
Iraq’s national library was looted and burned in 2003. Now its director is blogging about the bombings, shootings and death threats he and his staff face.