Art Spiegelman

Art Spiegelman’s In the Shadow of No Towers appeared in the LRB in 2003. Be a Nose! came out in June.

Starting in this issue, the print edition of the London Review will be running ‘In the Shadow of No Towers’ by Art Spiegelman, an extract from which appears below. Spiegelman has recently announced his resignation from the New Yorker, restless with what he described to Corriere della Sera as ‘the widespread conformism of the mass media’ in the US during the Bush era:...

It Rhymes

Michael Wood, 6 April 1995

Pauline Kael used to write witheringly about musicals said to appeal to people who didn’t like musicals, and we might feel the same about poems for people who don’t like poems....

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