Douglas Wolk
By Douglas Wolk
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Culture Hand-Drawing, Hand-Drying, and Hand-Wringing in Ben Katchorâs America
â 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, itâs 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 createâŠ.
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Culture Everything Isnât Illuminated
EL ILUMINADO: A GRAPHIC NOVEL by Ilan Stavans and Steve Sheinkin Basic Books, 208 pages, $24.99 âI suppose youâll turn the whole murky mystery into some preposterous page-turner,â one of Ilan Stavansâs academic colleagues tells him as âEl Iluminadoâ gets moving. ââThe Da Vinci Code,â with matzo and salsa picante.â That would be the best-caseâŠ
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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 Weinsteinâs âUp, Up, and Oy Vey: How Jewish History, Culture, and Values Shaped the Comic Book Superhero,â Danny Fingerothâs âDisguised as Clark Kent: Jews,âŠ
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