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Jeff Alford

How to Read Nancy

Book Review by Jeff Alford

How to Read Nancy: The Elements of Comics in Three Easy Panels, by Paul Karasik and Mark Newgarden. Fantagraphics, 2017. $30, 276 pages.

To read Ernie Bushmiller’s Nancy is to slip momentarily in time, back to a lazy mid-century …

The Absolute Gravedigger

Book Review by Jeff Alford

The Absolute Gravedigger, by Vítězslav Nezval. Translated from the Czech by Stephan Delbos and Tereza Novická. Twisted Spoon Press, October 2016. $23, 214 pages.

Vítězslav Nezval (1900-1958) dreamt of changelings; he saw mutations where others saw stability. Square-faced and …

Foucault, in Winter, in the Linnaeus Garden

Book Review by Jeff Alford

Foucault, in Winter, in the Linnaeus Garden, by Michael Joyce. Starcherone Books, March 2015. $16, 184 pages.

 

Michael Joyce’s new epistolary novel, Foucault, in Winter, in the Linnaeus Garden, creates an alternate history of the philosopher by compiling fictional …

The Adventure of the Busts of Eva Perón

Book Review by Jeff Alford

The Adventure of the Busts of Eva Perón, by Carlos Gamerro (translated by Ian Barnett). And Other Stories, 2015. $16, 352 pages.

Carlos Gamerro’s surreal and very funny novel The Adventure of the Busts of Eva Perón follows the …

Kitten Clone

Book Review by Jeff Alford

Kitten Clone, by Douglas Coupland, Visual Editions, 2014, $40, 150 pages.

The London based book publisher Visual Editions‘ “Writers in Residence” series pairs narrative nonfiction with Magnum photographers to create a body of work that exemplifies the power …

The Dig

Book Review by Jeff Alford

The Dig, by Cynan Jones, Coffee House Press, 2015. $15.95, 156 pages.

Trembling with taut, visceral prose, Cynan Jones’s The Dig is a sparse work of searing beauty. Set in rural Wales, The Dig follows the lives of two …

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