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Portland’s Anders Nilsen debuts a new comic, with Greek drama, god drama, and strange wars.
Fiction writer Samantha Hunt has the capacity to tell a story that genuinely surprises, like her 2016 novel Mr. Splitfoot, which I read in a hot hurry, then immediately restarted because I wasn’t ready to be done with its mix of strangeness and surprise. That book flirted with something dark and occult, so I was […]
NICOLE J. GEORGES Just for the wow factor, Nicole J. Georges and I try to list all of her current projects. A well-known artist, educator, and organizer in zines and indie comics, Georges currently produces a weekly podcast, Sagittarian Matters, in which she conducts interviews and dispenses her highly regarded advice. She continues to do […]
Fetch is for anyone who’s ever really loved a dog.
The extraordinary and the familiar intertwine in Samantha Hunt’s debut story collection.
Hannah and Sugar KATE BERUBE There are few things I love more than a good picture book. As I’ve moved around as an adult, I’ve ditched most of the novels, memoirs, and poetry collections I’ve loved, but I’ve refused to let go of the picture books. It’s not just nostalgia that keeps me holding on […]
How the author went from illustrating iconic Portland zines to taking over children’s literature.
Disparate universes and everyday violence in Prelude to Bruise.
Farel Dalrymple’s surrealist comic book is action-packed as all hell.
Angela Nagle seems fearless. Who else would dive deep into the Alt-Right’s swamp of Pepe the Frog memes, conspiracy theories, and anonymous depravity unified by a hatred of “PC culture,” feminism, and multiculturalism, and a love for Donald Trump? Her new book, Kill All Normies: Online Culture Wars from 4Chan and Tumblr to Trump and […]
As someone who developed an unhealthy relationship with food at a young age, used to be obese, and still regularly struggles with body image, I knew before sitting down to read Roxane Gay’s newest book Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body that I was going to relate to it. But Hunger isn’t a telling of […]
Roxane Gay’s new memoir fills a void in the literary world.
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