Comments
"What about the small indignities that women experience day after day? The expectation that they be unfailingly helpful; the golf rounds and networking opportunities they’re not invited to; the siphoning off of credit for their work by others; unfair performance reviews that penalize them for the same behavior that’s applauded in men; the 'manterrupting'?"
Fantastic article on workplace sexism by Jessica Nordell, author of THE END OF BIAS: A BEGINNING, in The New York Times Opinion Section:
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/10/14/opinion/gender-bias.html
"Jerusalemites and Palestinians have been a center of culture and civilization for millennia." Rashid Khalidi, Metropolitan author of THE HUNDRED YEARS' WAR ON PALESTINE, in a piece on the meaning and restoration of the historic Khalidi Library. Arab News
https://www.arabnews.com/node/1800226/middle-east
"Engrossing and heartbreaking." —Kirkus Reviews (🌟)
"An absorbing account of a visionary project." —Library Journal (🌟)
"Wistful and well-documented history." —Publishers Weekly
The trades have spoken! SOUL CITY by Thomas Healy is out tomorrow!
https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781627798624
"For the last decade, pundits have been announcing the imminent demise of conservatism [and] have celebrated the coming triumph of multicultural liberalism, the awakening of a generation. Will Trumpism’s collapse into madness and violence finally turn their predictions into reality?"
Metropolitan author Thomas Frank for Le Monde diplomatique:
https://mondediplo.com/2021/02/02usa
"Anyone trying to wrap their heads around Thanksgiving myths about Pilgrims and Indians while also acknowledging their role in the occupation of lands stolen from indigenous people and the continued demand for fossil fuels and other resources that has brought us to a state of climate emergency needs to read this incredible work of comics journalism by a masterful researcher, storyteller, and artist."
Hats off to Thi Bui for strongly recommending Joe Sacco and PAYING THE LAND:
https://www.marinij.com/2021/01/26/books-thi-bui-delves-deep-into-the-immigrant-and-refugee-experience-2/
"A typical caricature, where the artist makes fun of a person’s weight or other characteristics, can be easily dismissed. I strive to make images that bypass all of that and hit closer to the bone.”
Artist and Metropolitan author Edel Rodriguez for TIME:
https://ti.me/39FDBli