Michael On Everything

Reviews of The Freaks Came Out to Write, the new oral history of the Village Voice by Tricia Romano, Easily Slip Into Another World, a memoir from jazz compsoser and multi-instrumentalist Henry Threadgill, and more.

Reviews of Patience and Monica, two different graphic novels by Daniel Clowes, Monsters: A Fan’s Dilemma, Claire Dederer’s reckoning with “problematic artists,” and more.

Reviews of Wifedom, Anna Funder’s biography of Eileen O’Shaughnessy (a.k.a. “Mrs. George Orwell”), Anansi’s Gold, Yepoka Yeebo’s biography of the 20th Century’s most successful con artist, and more.