{"id":153895,"date":"2021-08-06T09:00:18","date_gmt":"2021-08-06T13:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=153895"},"modified":"2021-08-06T10:17:45","modified_gmt":"2021-08-06T14:17:45","slug":"staff-picks-comics-keys-and-chaos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2021\/08\/06\/staff-picks-comics-keys-and-chaos\/","title":{"rendered":"Staff Picks: Comics, Keys, and Chaos"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_153915\" style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/claveloux.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-153915\" class=\"size-full wp-image-153915\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/claveloux.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1001\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/claveloux.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/claveloux-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/claveloux-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/claveloux-768x769.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-153915\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nicole Claveloux. Photo courtesy of New York Review Books.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The topic of night terrors has come up in a slew of my conversations lately. In part, this is due to the fact that I\u2019ve been hanging out with a precocious two-year-old with rare but potent insomniac nights. But I also have Nicole Claveloux to thank for my current fixation on hypnagogic hallucinations, those surreal visions that crop up at the threshold of consciousness. Claveloux\u2019s graphic short stories from the late seventies, originally written in French and published for the first time in English in 2017 as <a href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/a\/1531\/9781681371078\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>The Green Hand and Other Stories<\/em><\/a>, are not literal renderings of night terrors. But the comics are nightmarish in the best sense\u2014absurd, sharply funny, visceral, revealing. I read the collection in one big gulp, prickling with affection for the band of outsiders that populates its pages: a root vegetable with aspirations of becoming a panther, a misanthropic bird, a talking houseplant, a devilishly clever kid on the cusp of puberty.\u00a0<strong>\u2014Jay Graham\u00a0<\/strong><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Matt Mitchell is one of the most exciting pianists and composers in contemporary jazz\u2014to my ear, at least. He herds chaos into the corral of his compositions with great precision. The new box set <a href=\"https:\/\/pirecordings.com\/albums\/snark-horse\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Snark Horse<\/em><\/a> is the six-disc culmination of a project he and his partner, the drummer Kate Gentile\u2014who has developed her playing such that it can accommodate lots of musical corners, dead ends, and abrupt pauses\u2014have been working at for years. It\u2019s a book of one-measure compositions, each of which has just enough room for a hint of melody, that repeat and morph and fly out of control at the hands of their large ensemble. Imagine John Zorn\u2019s Masada compositions but intentionally broken. It\u2019s fine to drop the proverbial needle anywhere in this sea of mostly discordant music; it\u2019s challenging listening, sometimes grating, though often very exciting. After many listens, I\u2019m still sorting out what the point of it is. I suspect it will keep me occupied for years. <strong>\u2014Craig Morgan Teicher<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_153919\" style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/ted_lasso_photo_010703.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-153919\" class=\"size-full wp-image-153919\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/ted_lasso_photo_010703.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/ted_lasso_photo_010703.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/ted_lasso_photo_010703-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/ted_lasso_photo_010703-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-153919\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jason Sudeikis in <em>Ted Lasso<\/em>, now streaming on Apple TV+.\u200b<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The appeals of the television show <a href=\"https:\/\/tv.apple.com\/us\/show\/ted-lasso\/umc.cmc.vtoh0mn0xn7t3c643xqonfzy?ctx_brand=tvs.sbd.4000\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Ted Lasso<\/em><\/a>, whose second season premiered a couple of weeks ago on Apple TV+, are simple: the characters are charming, the jokes stack to satisfying payoffs, and the sports action snaps with an appropriate tension and speed. The title character, played by Jason Sudeikis, is a chipper, mustachioed fish out of water, an American football coach conscripted to lead a failing British soccer team. I watched much of the first season while I was very ill\u2014perhaps the perfect conditions for consuming a show that goes down with the sweet smoothness of amoxicillin. <strong>\u2014Brian Ransom<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The indie rock band Life without Buildings made only one album, 2001\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/album\/2yOa9ICNMAi78AWopdSOe1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Any Other City<\/em><\/a>. It\u2019s ten songs, forty-four minutes and change. That\u2019s less than many of us spend getting to work every morning. Each song is a little upbeat, a little moody. The band\u2019s vocalist, Sue Tomkins, adds a forcefully girlish tone, with lines repeated to keep tempo with the drums. By being totally undemanding, this brief moment in the long history of Scottish music is an absolutely perfect capsule of feeling. <strong>\u2014Lauren Kane<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In 1643, several years after the Massachusetts Bay Colony expelled him for his intractable views about freedom of conscience and fairness of land grabs, the Reverend Roger Williams published <em>A Key into the Language of America<\/em>. Part phrase book, part ethnography, the book is a rare document of the Narragansett people before King Philip\u2019s War. It seems unique in its attention to and relative respect for the Narragansett, who saved Williams\u2019s life when Boston kicked him out, but \u201crelative\u201d is an important qualifier. In 2019, the Tomaquag Museum offered a <a href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/a\/1531\/9781594163142\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">new edition<\/a> of Williams\u2019s <em>Key<\/em>, edited by a group of scholars, elders, and culture bearers who, via footnotes, coolly take the old Reverend to task on major issues\u2014for example, his use of the word <em>barbarians<\/em> and his belief that drums are an English invention\u2014and offer thoughtful context for his observations and misunderstandings. Importantly, they also standardize spellings and punctuation, without which few would dare attempt <em>ys olde Englifh book<\/em>. The Tomaquag edition of <em>A<\/em> <em>Key<\/em>, a dialogue between Williams and the descendants of the people he wrote about nearly five centuries ago, is a thrill to read\u2014an exciting introduction to America\u2019s language and a gift to anyone seeking a more complete American history. <strong>\u2014Jane Breakell<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_153920\" style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/island.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-153920\" class=\"size-full wp-image-153920\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/island.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"691\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/island.jpeg 1000w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/island-300x207.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/island-768x531.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-153920\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">William Trost Richards, <em>Rhode Island Coast: Conanicut Island<\/em>, ca. 1880, transparent watercolor with touches of opaque watercolor on cream, moderately thick, slightly textured wove paper, 10 x 14 3\/8. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week, the staff of \u2018The Paris Review\u2019 reads Nicole Claveloux, listens to Life without Buildings, and watches \u2018Ted Lasso.\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[438],"tags":[67827],"class_list":["post-153895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-this-weeks-reading","tag-featured"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.4 (Yoast SEO v25.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Staff Picks: Comics, Keys, and Chaos by The Paris Review<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"August 6, 2021 \u2013 This week, the staff of \u2018The Paris Review\u2019 reads Nicole Claveloux, listens to 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