"In May of 1796, the French Directory ordered Napoleon Bonaparte, its star general, to steal some art
| “In May of 1796, the French Directory ordered Napoleon Bonaparte, its star general, to steal some art.” So begins Lily Meyer’s fascinating review of Plunder, Cynthia Saltzman’s new book on France’s calculated artistic kleptomania.Equally engrossing is a new graphic novel about the trials and tribulations of a community of cyclops. A parody of the encyclopedic form, Ysabelle Cheung writes that it “encourages us to think about tokenism and fetishization in relation to visibility.”Happy reading.—Dessane Lopez Cassell, Editor, Reviews | |
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| | Seeing Through the Eye of Others Aminder Dhaliwal’s new graphic novel, Cyclopedia Exotica, challenges stereotypes by delivering broader messages on the complexity of race, gender, and identity. Ysabelle Cheung |
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| Douglas Kearney's Poetry of Performance Kearney’s language — exquisitely torqued and modulated, sheering from the formal to the vernacular — reminds us that we are in the hands of a masterful performer. Mark Scroggins |
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