Douglas Wolk
By Douglas Wolk
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Culture Hand-Drawing, Hand-Drying, and Hand-Wringing in Ben Katchor’s America
● Hand-Drying in America: And Other Stories By Ben Katchor Pantheon, 160 pages, $29.95 Ben Katchor knows well that the city is an incredibly weird place. Specifically, it’s a place where weirdness has accumulated over time, propelled by the endless cycle of commercial solutions to urban problems and by the new problems the solutions create….
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Culture Everything Isn’t Illuminated
EL ILUMINADO: A GRAPHIC NOVEL by Ilan Stavans and Steve Sheinkin Basic Books, 208 pages, $24.99 ‘I suppose you’ll turn the whole murky mystery into some preposterous page-turner,” one of Ilan Stavans’s academic colleagues tells him as “El Iluminado” gets moving. “‘The Da Vinci Code,’ with matzo and salsa picante.” That would be the best-case…
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Culture Faster Than A Speeding Tallis
Superman Is Jewish? By Harry Brod Free Press, 240 pages, $25 There has been a little boom, recently, in books about the links between Jews and comic books. Stack up Simcha Weinstein’s “Up, Up, and Oy Vey: How Jewish History, Culture, and Values Shaped the Comic Book Superhero,” Danny Fingeroth’s “Disguised as Clark Kent: Jews,…
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