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As 2025 comes to an end, our editors and critics have selected a dozen essential reads in nonfiction and a dozen, too, in fiction and poetry. See the full list: newyorkermag.visitlink.me/_3K0Ek
December 11, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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"....coyly removing the work from centuries of conversations about taste, lineage, and merit...."

not a bad way to write about Joe Brainard's C Comics.
Joe Brainard’s The Complete C Comics | The Brooklyn Rail
This collection makes clear how much pleasure Brainard took not only in the form of the comic but in the form of a magazine of comics: the collaborative methodology of passing work between friends, th...
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December 11, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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🗞️Qui dit dessin de presse, dit Gébé. Et qui dit Gébé… dit BnF !

En collaboration avec la Maison du dessin de presse,
la BnF présente la première rétrospective consacrée à Gébé (1929-2004), à visiter gratuitement sur le site François-Mitterrand jusqu'au 19 octobre : www.bnf.fr/fr/agenda/ge...
May 6, 2025 at 8:39 AM
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‘Schopenhauer has long held the title of gloomiest philosopher in history. He sees human existence not as grand tragedy but squalid farce, with men and women writhing in the grip of appetites that are both pointless and insatiable.’

Terry Eagleton:

www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Terry Eagleton · Pregnant with Monsters: Schopenhauer makes a stir
Schopenhauer has long held the title of gloomiest philosopher in history. He sees human existence not as grand tragedy...
www.lrb.co.uk
December 5, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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Autumn Campus (2023)
Art Print: www.inprnt.com/gallery/ryot...
November 13, 2025 at 6:09 AM