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Building Hive Stories: Ware Burns Bright and Burns’ Bright Wares

Two of the world’s best cartoonists are at BookPeople on Thursday

by W. A. Brenner October 24, 2012December 24, 2025

Arts

Carry On, My Wayward Tongue

Michael Erard on ‘Um …: Slips, Stumbles, and Verbal Blunders, and What They Mean’

by Scott Blackwood September 14, 2007September 30, 2025

Screens

In Print

by Kimberley Jones February 23, 2007September 30, 2025

Arts

Because Jessica Abel’s La Perdida takes place in Mexico City and involves a sometimes frictional intermingling of Mexicans and Americans, it’s attracted comparison to Los Bros Hernandez’s classic Love and Rockets

by W. A. Brenner May 12, 2006September 30, 2025

Arts

Readings

Gaitskill’s facility with the written word mostly compensates for the messiness of the novel’s plot

by Jess Sauer November 11, 2005September 30, 2025

Arts

Summer Reading

In ‘Embroideries,’ Marjane Satrapi again returns to the Iran of her youth, this time taking readers to a more intimate place, the space inhabited by women

by Belinda Acosta May 27, 2005September 30, 2025

Arts

Readings

Rachel Seiffert’s sparse, airy prose belies a profound concern with individual identity and historical memory

by Russell Cobb September 24, 2004September 30, 2025

Arts

Readings

Art Spiegelman’s response to September 11 is an invigorating obstacle course for the eyes and a workout for the reader’s mind

by W. A. Brenner September 10, 2004September 30, 2025

Arts

Readings

After the success of Persepolis, there was only one question for Satrapi. What would she do for an encore?

by W. A. Brenner August 27, 2004September 30, 2025

Arts

Readings

‘You might call Lawrence Weschler’s most recent collection of peripatetic musings, ‘Vermeer in Bosnia,’ a series of tangents or digressions,’ Russell Cobb writes, ‘but this would ignore the fact the tangent is often the tale.’

by Russell Cobb August 20, 2004September 30, 2025