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Drawn In
by Caitlin Dover
So many fine-art books are designed in such a staid, expected way that a book like One Thousand Drawings comes as a treat and a surprise.... More

Regular Features
by Caitlin Dover
I’m exactly the wrong person to review Sarah Stolfa’s book of photographs, The Regulars. Her portraits of patrons at a Philadelphia dive are simply candy to someone like me who loves any portrait—a blurry iPhone snap, a 17th-century Dutch likeness—better than any other kind of picture.... More

R. Crumb Re-Presents the Old, Weird Western Civilization
by Bill Kartalopoulos
Robert Crumb’s new, long-form comics adaptation of the Book of Genesis may be more immediately accessible to casual graphic novel readers than to devotees of the celebrated cartoonist’s satirical, psychedelic, sexual, and endlessly self-excavating short-form comics of the past forty-two years.... More

Four Photographs of an Atomic Bomb
by Drew Dernavich
Images of the atom bomb have ceased to shock. The mushroom cloud has a cozy familiarity; the fireball has been adopted by the movies. But these 1952 photographs still manage to jolt... More

Poster Child
by Michael Silverberg
Mike Mills’s new book nicely captures the contradictory natures of the personal and the profitable.... More

Books: The Art of Harvey Kurtzman: The Mad Genius of Comics
by John Canemaker
In October 1952, the first Mad comic book was published. AND THE UNIVERSE MOVED for nine-year old me and millions of American kids.... More

What a Gentleman!
by Peter Terzian
IN 2006, THE BRITISH designer David Gentleman blanketed London’s Parliament Square with 1,000 large paper cards, each one holding 100 splatters of blood-red ink. This installation, a protest... More

Wildfire and Frezno
by Colin Berry
Print contributing editor Colin Berry reviews Wildfire, a photography book of burned-out California locales, and Frezno, an unblinking look... More

Panter's Playhouse
by Bill Kartalopoulos
A review of Gary Panter, a formidable new monograph that surveys... More

Photographic Testimonies
by Brian Sholis
Two recent books, Inside North Korea and Welcome to Pyongyang, offer tightly circumscribed glimpses... More

Le Corbusier Le Grand
by Mark Lamster
Mark Lamster reviews the biographies Le Corbusier: A Life and Le Corbusier Le Grand.... More

Dangerous Curves
by Paul Shaw
Dangerous Curves, the latest from Doyald Young, is a paean to the power of the pencil without being an anti-computer screed.... More

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