Facebook Twitter Threads Bluesky Mail to Print page “Sara Berman’s Closet” is at the Metropolitan Museum of Art through September 5. Subscribe to our Newsletters Best of The New York Review, plus books, events, and other items of interest Email Address Continue Submit a letter: Email us letters@nybooks.com More by Liana Finck Rear Window April 4, 2020 April 4, 2020 A Sketched Guide to Michelangelo February 24, 2018 February 24, 2018 Facebook Twitter Threads Bluesky Mail to Print page More by Liana Finck Rear Window April 4, 2020 April 4, 2020 A Sketched Guide to Michelangelo February 24, 2018 February 24, 2018 Liana Finck Liana Finck's cartoons appear in The New Yorker, The Awl, and Catapult, and she posts autobiographical drawings on her Instagram feed. Her graphic novel, A Bintel Brief, was published in 2014.
Jon Day America On Two Wheels You & a Bike & a Road is a lovely, slow book about going a journey—not an epic, world-dominating circumnavigation, but something quieter and more intimate. July 3, 2017
Hillary Chute A Man Alone in a Comic Book Guy Delisle’s new book, Hostage, is his best since Pyongyang. It breaks his recent formula, and in doing so beautifully demonstrates the aptitude of comics for representing time and subjective experience. May 1, 2017
Glen Baxter At Home with the Irrational Over four decades and many books of drawings, “Colonel” Glen Baxter has built a world and language all his own. August 27, 2016
Liana Finck A Sketched Guide to Michelangelo The Michelangelo show at the Met is a conundrum. On the one hand, the work is for the most part so private. On the other hand, the show is a blockbuster, full to the brim with the kinds of people who go to big name museum shows. February 24, 2018
Nathan Gelgud The Magic of Iris Murdoch Look—I know it’s corny to have a favorite writer, but I realized recently that in my case there’s just no denying it. And this month would have been Iris Murdoch’s 100th birthday. July 15, 2019
Vladimir Radunsky Mark Twain’s ‘Advice to Little Girls’ If at any time you find it necessary to correct your brother, do not correct him with mud—never, on any account, throw mud at him, because it will spoil his clothes. It is better to scald him a little, for then you obtain desired results. If your mother tells you… July 15, 2011
Sarah Boxer Hamlet, My Prince of Pigs You’ll see that Hamlet: Prince of Pigs has been stripped of all fat. And tragedy minus many words is comedy. A pared-down Hamlet is a funny Hamlet. Here are a few scenes from my tragicomic. February 25, 2018
