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.