Saturday, July 25, 2026

Quote of the Week: Someone That I Used to Know

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It's always embarrassing to run unexpectedly into a girl you used to be engaged to. I mean, you don't quite know how to comport your...
Friday, July 24, 2026

Foundling Fathers by Meg Elison

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They say that one of the best compliments you can give to a book is the wish that it was longer. Well, I think Foundling Fathers  is a great...
Thursday, July 23, 2026

Drew Friedman's Chosen People

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Can reading a book be an experiment? I thought of this one that way, but that may just be me being precious about something minor. I've ...
Wednesday, July 22, 2026

Blacksad, Vol. 2: Arctic Nation by Juan Díaz Canales & Juanjo Guarnido

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I don't want to say that creators can't write about whatever they want to write about. That's not my point at all. But if they w...
Tuesday, July 21, 2026

Laughing Gas by P.G. Wodehouse

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I don't like to make sweeping statements about writers with around a hundred published books, since there's likely to be some oddbal...
Monday, July 20, 2026

All of This and Nothing: Cage in a Cave

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"All of This and Nothing" is a series of weekly posts, each about one song I really love, by an artist I haven't featured in t...
Sunday, July 19, 2026

Reviewing the Mail: Week of July 18, 2026

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This is slightly cheating: I'm writing this the morning of Friday, July 10, and the three books below all arrived earlier this  week. Bu...
Saturday, July 18, 2026

Quote of the Week: Natural Mechanisms

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The lawyer talked. There are more millionaires in this country than in any other, he said, and at the same time more robbers and killers. Th...
Friday, July 17, 2026

Daredevil: Born Again by Frank Miller and David Mazzucchelli

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I'm sure I've re-read this story since 1986. You can't prove it from this blog, though. And my copy of  the trade paperback is t...
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Thursday, July 16, 2026

Physics for Cats by Tom Gauld

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Tom Gauld is one of our funniest cartoonists, and also comes off as one of our most erudite. He cartoons regularly both for The Guardian , a...
Wednesday, July 15, 2026

Thieves Like Us by Edward Anderson

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This is a noir  novel; I read it in the Library of America omnibus Crime Novels: American Noir of the 1930s and 1940s . I don't know Edw...
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Tuesday, July 14, 2026

The Court Charade by Flore Vesco and Kerascöet

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Let me tell you about the dangers of good intentions. Over the last few years, I've made an effort to include diacritical marks in peopl...
Monday, July 13, 2026

All of This and Nothing: Rock Lobster

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"All of This and Nothing" is a series of weekly posts, each about one song I really love, by an artist I haven't featured in t...
Sunday, July 12, 2026

Reviewing the Mail: Week of July 11, 2026

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I ordered a batch of book-shaped comics recently - I'd gotten a coupon from the shop that I suppose is my "regular" these year...
Saturday, July 11, 2026

Quote of the Week: A Pathologist's Realization

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He had thought that he was going to die and was surprised at home little he feared the prospect. It had all been so shabby and shoddy, so or...