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I\u2019ve been losing myself on the train this week in Gabrielle Bell\u2019s new comic,\u00a0Everything Is Flammable<\/a>.<\/em>\u00a0It doesn\u2019t come out until April, so I\u2019m jumping the gun here, but once I read it I couldn\u2019t not write about it\u2014it\u2019s that good. Bell writes and draws stories with deep humanity, and, impressively, that humanity\u2014painful, awkward, and uncertain\u2014is her own. This new book spans a year and follows Bell as she travels to and from her mother\u2019s home in rural Northern California,\u00a0navigating the guilt she feels as an absent daughter and the anxiety she feels in trying to care for her independent mother. Bell\u2019s self-awareness and observations never result in tidy epiphanies; the book\u2019s strips open out into one another, accumulating without resolution. She is also always funny, and her distinct blocky hatching style gives warmth to every panel.\u00a0The ineffable quality is that she makes all this look easy. \u2014Nicole Rudick<\/strong><\/p>\n

Having spent hours puzzling over dumb subway ads (worst recent offender: HelloFresh, whose come-hither copy begs, LET\u2019S MAKE SWEET, SWEET POTATOES TOGETHER<\/small>) I\u2019m having a ball with Glenn O\u2019Brien\u2019s Like Art<\/a><\/em>\u2014a collection of his columns on\u00a0advertising, which ran in Artforum <\/em>from 1985 to 1990. As the title suggests, O\u2019Brien treats ads as art objects, which is to say he understands that most of them are meaningless, even if their effects on us aren\u2019t. Though he offers withering pronouncements (\u201cYou can\u2019t run a jingle over emaciated faces and bloated bellies,\u201d he says of an AT&T ad about using your long-distance plan to call Ethiopia) and even occasional praise, really his columns amount to a kind of advertisee\u2019s diary, recording the idle chatter that passes through us as we process hundreds, maybe thousands of ads every week. Here he is on cigarettes: \u201cIn London recently there were billions of billboards everywhere with the image of scissors cut out of purple fabric. Near one corner was the British version of The Warning: \u2018Cigarettes can seriously damage your health.\u2019 But I couldn\u2019t figure out if this was a cigarette ad or an antismoking ad. It was the most abstract ad I\u2019d ever seen. I wanted to stop people on the street and ask them what it meant, but I didn\u2019t. I still don\u2019t know.\u201d \u2014Dan Piepenbring\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Sifting through near-forgotten books on my shelf the other night, I came across Aracelis Girmay\u2019s collection\u00a0The Black Maria<\/a><\/em>, which I promptly reread\u2014it proved as alluring and torturous as I\u2019d remembered. Comprising two sections,\u00a0The Black Maria<\/em>\u00a0(a phrase that conjures up not only the bitter image of a patrol car whisking wrongdoers away but also of the dark spots of the moon, once mistaken for seas, called\u00a0maria<\/em>) brims with the histories of the African diaspora and the racism that swarms this country. Each line heaves with a grief several hundred years old as Girmay writes\u00a0of the African people who have died at sea; of feeling hunted, in America, like \u201canother animal, one it is legal to kill. A bear or boar.\u201d; of a black child who, to study the stars, climbs to the roof of his apartment only to be met by officers\u2014\u201cyou might be holding \/\u00a0your breath for him right now \/\u00a0because you know this story.\u201d And yet\u00a0Girmay\u2019s verse is startlingly\u00a0poised, even as it bellows with her immeasurable\u00a0sorrow and outrage, even as it wakes our own. \u2014Caitlin Youngquist<\/strong><\/p>\n

Richard Howard\u2019s new translation of Guy de Maupassant\u2019s\u00a0Like Death<\/em><\/a>\u00a0haunted me with its lyrical force. The novel tells of the decline of an artist named Olivier Bertin\u2014from youth, from fame, and ultimately from life. In his prime, Bertin embodied\u00a0joie de vivre: \u201cParis had been utterly smitten, had adopted him, toasted him, and he straightaway became one of those brilliant figures \u2026He had entered the city as a conqueror, to universal approval.\u201d But that was also how \u201cFortune led him to the threshold of old age, petting and caressing him all the way.\u201d Drastically unprepared for growing old, Olivier clings to his youth. His lover, Anne, by comparison, is always aware that her age determines her value; she watches as Olivier becomes increasingly obsessed with her teenage daughter. Written as Maupassant himself was dying,\u00a0Like Death<\/em>\u00a0arrests readers with its searing prose, gripped by the same anxiety preoccupying its protagonist. Howard has done us the immense service of conveying\u00a0Like Death<\/em>\u2019s intense psychology to a new generation of readers. \u2014Madeline Medeiros Pereira<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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