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Ben Kothe / The Atlantic Chain-Gang All-Stars Is Gladiator Meets the American Prison System
Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah’s new novel is set in a world where extreme brutality has become corporate entertainment.
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Drawn & Quarterly The Groundbreaking Female Artist Who Shaped Manga History
A new collection introduces English-speaking audiences to an overlooked Japanese cartoonist who smashed both gender and genre norms during her short life.
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Dave Pickoff / AP / Bettmann / Getty … The Famous Baldwin-Buckley Debate Still Matters Today
In 1965, two American titans faced off on the subject of the country’s racial divides. Nearly 55 years later, the event has lost none of its relevance, as a recent book attests.
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Sandy Everson-Levy / Bambi Everson Edward Gorey and the Power of the Ineffable
The writer-illustrator, whose darkly comic works remain enormously influential today, disdained explanation in favor of the playfully irrational.
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Cinebook Science Fiction’s Under-Appreciated Feminist Icon
The French comic series Valérian and Laureline, newly adapted into a summer blockbuster, gave the genre one of its first protagonists to powerfully own her womanhood.
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Jim Urquhart / Reuters Queer Writers in the Age of Trump
How literary expression can counter fear and anxiety at an uncertain moment in American history
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Studio Ghibli Hayao Miyazaki and the Art of Being a Woman
The famed Japanese animator and director created heroines who defied feminine stereotypes and showed me how to be at home in my own skin.
