Book Review

The Big Book of Wag

This tidy volume purports to contain the best of the first nine issues of Wag Magazine, a self-published zine of […]

Attitude Maximum Security

Attitude is an ongoing collection of subversive cartoon-style political commentary. This edition features seasoned political cartoonist Stephanie McMillan. The title […]

A Nut at the Opera

A Nut at the Opera is a wonderful book about a fictitious world of tenors and sopranos. Although there’s not […]

Joyland

An essential rite of passage in the 1980s was the aromatic romance of the local videogame arcade: an unavoidable place […]

Miss Lamp

Miss Lamp is the strangest book I’ve come across in a while. Quirky, sweet, inventive and grotesque, this literary novel […]

Limbo

Death and dissatisfaction pervade Jacqueline Honnet’s narratives. In “Funeral Stories,” a husband torments his wife with questions about what she […]

Whatever Happens

Tim Conley writes about a different kind of reality-the kind where a man can hear a conversation in the apartment […]

The Immaculate Conception

I read The Immaculate Conception in the bathtub, which I think is higher praise than saying I read it in […]

Beauty is a Liar

In this odd combination of short prose and snippets of poetry, Kalynchuck unites unusual images-fish and violins, turnips and spelling […]

Sticky

This is porn at its cartoon best. Wordless, but no lack of storyline. Dale says that in writing these tales […]

Gilded Lilies: Comics and Drawings

Looking at this book made me want to draw. Tamaki’s collection of drawings remind me of a mix between the […]