Doorstopper Week!
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Category: New York Journal of Books
The Last Days of Mankind: A Visual Guide to Karl Kraus’ Great War Epic by Deborah Sengl @ nyjb
Deborah Sengl continues the legacy of acid-tongued Austrian artists from Kraus and Kafka to more contemporary voices like Thomas Bernhard and Elfriede Jelinek. Continue reading The Last Days of Mankind: A Visual Guide to Karl Kraus’ Great War Epic by Deborah Sengl @ nyjb
Global Art and the Cold War by John J. Curley @ nyjb
“Throughout these tumultuous decades, artists have sought to express themselves in harrowing circumstances. John J. Curley provides a lucid summary of the era and unique insights into famous and unknown artists.” Continue reading Global Art and the Cold War by John J. Curley @ nyjb
Dungeons & Dragons Art and Arcana: A Visual History, by Michael Witwer @ nyjb
“Art and Arcana offers glorious illustrations, fascinating backstories, and the occasional painful misstep of a franchise entering its 40th year.” Continue reading Dungeons & Dragons Art and Arcana: A Visual History, by Michael Witwer @ nyjb
Pop Culture Week: Harryhausen: The Movie Posters, by Richard Holliss @ nyjb
“Harryhausen: The Movie Posters is infotainment in the best sense of the word.” Continue reading Pop Culture Week: Harryhausen: The Movie Posters, by Richard Holliss @ nyjb
Pop Culture Week Preview
A preview of Pop Culture Week. Continue reading Pop Culture Week Preview
Exemplary Departures by Gabrielle Wittkop @ NYJB
“Exemplary Departures” by Gabrielle Wittkop brings together four stories of inevitable death. Continue reading Exemplary Departures by Gabrielle Wittkop @ NYJB
Translation Tuesdays: Spells by Michel de Ghelderode @ nyjb
“Spells by Michel de Ghelderode offers a collection of stories both beautiful and loathsome. He represents literature that must be wrestled with to fully appreciate. . . . [it] is literature distilled from despair, nostalgia, and sickness.” Continue reading Translation Tuesdays: Spells by Michel de Ghelderode @ nyjb
Science Fiction Week: Jerusalem by Alan Moore @ nyjb
Alan Moore’s “Jerusalem” is a turgid, overwritten slab of pretentiousness. Continue reading Science Fiction Week: Jerusalem by Alan Moore @ nyjb
Economic Thought: A Brief History by Heinz D. Kurz @ nyjb
From ancient Greece to the modern globalized economy, Kurz distills the essence of various schools of thought and the personalities who made them. Continue reading Economic Thought: A Brief History by Heinz D. Kurz @ nyjb
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