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Book Review: Bill Griffith’s Indelible “Invisible Ink”

November 20, 2015
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Bill Griffith, the creator of Zippy the Pinhead, dives deep into his personal life in his extraordinary new graphic memoir.

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Fuse Book Review: Living With the Spenders—Surviving an Odd Childhood

November 18, 2015
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One must be impressed by memoirist Matthew Spender, who refuses to descend into resentment or anything resembling self-pity despite a very strange childhood.

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Fuse Visual Arts Review: Ink in the Blanks—Bill Griffith Gathers and Discovers His Past with Graphics

November 11, 2015
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If anyone needs more evidence that graphic memoirs are the equal of purely literary ones, Invisible Ink closes the case for good.

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Fuse Interview: Linda Hirshman on How Female Supremes Changed the World

November 10, 2015
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“The question is what piece of the American experience is next going to add the richness of its voice to the Supreme Court.

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Book Review: Seeing “Eternity’s Sunrise”—Understanding the Vision of William Blake

November 10, 2015
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In Eternity’s Sunrise, Leo Damrosch’s prose flows, filled with imaginative lucidity.

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Book Review: “The Pilgrim’s Bowl” — Approaching the Enigma of Painter Giorgio Morandi

November 9, 2015
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Beautifully produced by Seagull Books, The Pilgrim’s Bowl is an invaluable introduction to both painter and poet.

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Book Review: A Chance for Peace—”Killing a King”

November 8, 2015
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People like [Yigal Amir] emerge in many social movements, people who regard protest within the bounds of democratic process as insufficient.

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Book Review: Victorian Fairy Tales—Sprites Against Realism

October 30, 2015
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What seems to animate many of the fairy tales is a heady freedom from the constraints of realism.

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Book Review: “Death by Water” — Imagination, Masterfully Redeemed

October 29, 2015
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Death By Water plumbs the depths of the human condition in an entirely original way.

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Book Review: “Neurotic Beauty”—Japanese Therapeutics

October 27, 2015
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Berman finds a submerged psychic and cultural stratum in Japanese culture that might supply possible antidotes to the US’s consumerist and individualist fevers.

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