Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home
Books with any kind of diversity are disproportionately challenged versus books by and about straight white males. More
Marjane Satrapi: Persepolis and Chicken with Plums
Using animation, film, and the graphic novel, the peerless Marjane Satrapi combines political history and memoir to depict a country’s upheaval through the story of one family. More
The Race to Incarcerate
Four panels from the graphic retelling of Marc Mauer's 2006 book Race to Incarcerate, illustrated by Sabrina Jones and forthcoming from New Press in April 2013. More
Ce N’est Pas Le Monde
Below is new graphic analysis by John Krygier and Denis Wood. It appears in PEN America 15: Maps. More
From Alan’s War
This excerpt from Alan’s War: The Memories of G.I. Alan Cope by Emmanuel Guibert appears in PEN America 11: Make Believe. More
The Living Room
“The Living Room” is excerpted from A Game for Swallows by Zeina Abirached and translated by Edward Gauvin. It appears in PEN America 12: Correspondences. More
One Way to Disappear
“One Way to Disappear” first appeared as “Dorado Park” in Nine Ways to Disappear. It appears in PEN America 13: Lovers. More
Mehdi’s Gone
Mehdi’s Gone is part of Zahra’s Paradise, a story set in the aftermath of Iran’s 2009 elections. First Second Books is publishing it online in Farsi, Arabic, English, French,… More