Joshua Lambert
By Joshua Lambert
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Culture How Comics Help Us Combat Holocaust Fatigue
You might not remember where you were when you first saw a panel from Art Spiegelman’s “Maus,” but you probably do remember how you felt: shocked. Jews as mice, Nazis as cats, the Holocaust presented in the form of classic cartoon enmity. What could be stranger, more unsettling? Here’s what: discovering that the first artist…
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Culture Delmore Schwartz: Diminished Responsibility and Literary Genius
In Dreams Begin Responsibilities and Other Stories Delmore Schwartz New Directions, 1978. 202 pages. Delmore Schwartz was a poet first and foremost, and an important one, but his short stories—a valuable selection of which are collected in In Dreams Begin Responsibilities and Other Stories—aren’t too shabby themselves. Concerned for the most part with sensitive young…
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