In four new graphic novels, the world is changing, and our heroes are making changes of their own. Near the beginning of “Wally’s Gang,” the story that takes up most of FRANK JOHNSON, SECRET PIONEER OF AMERICAN COMICS, VOLUME 1 (Fantagraphics, 608 pp., $49.99), edited by Keith Mayerson and Chris Byrne, one character, George, gets […]
The Archive of Feelings by Peter Stamm IN A 2017 INTERVIEW with The White Review , Peter Stamm remembered a “special cookie” he loved as a child. As the Swiss novelist explained: “I had the feeling that wanting these cookies so much weakened me. So I bought a whole packet and ate all of it […]
The following is from Roxana Robinson’s Leaving . Robinson is the award-winning author of six novels and three short story collections. Her fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, Atlantic, Harper’s, and other publications. She lives in New York City and Connecticut, spends as much time as she can in Maine, and teaches in the […]
I have long searched for butch in writing. I pick up The Well of Loneliness every few years and cry each time the horse dies. I am working my way slowly through the thicket of Gertrude Stein, relinquishing understanding for something more like knowing. I have read Nightwood , Djuna Barnes’ ghostly evocation of a […]
