Two new graphic novels, “Bea Wolf” and “Mulysses,” are mash-ups many times over. Both use words and images. Both are designed for children and adults. Both borrow elements from famously complicated stories: “Bea Wolf” picks up verbal schemes and plot points from “Beowulf”; “Mulysses” plays on the deadpan humor of “Moby-Dick” and the Cyclops section […]
Hoffs doubles down on her talents with her debut novel, ‘This Bird Has Flown’ and new album, ‘The Deep End.’ Susanna Hoffs has one of the most beautiful voices in pop music. As a co-founder of the Bangles, she recorded several chart-topping singles including ” Manic Monday ” (written by Prince ), ” If She […]
A neighbor once told me that a woman died in my house. From then I was constantly looking in my house for signs—every creak was a footstep, every sound was a whisper, a loud scream. My mother says that the way Americans see death as a horror only tells half the story. The other half […]
