Building Stories, by Chris Ware (2012)
This is the sort of book that really stands out on your bookshelf, although friends who peruse your shelves might well mistake it for a boardgame. Even the w...
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Best American Comics 2011, ed. Alison Bechdel (2011)
This annual publication, which since 2006 has joined similar volumes on poetry and fiction, excerpts works published from September 2009 through August 2010 ...
All the Names, by José Saramago (1997)
Saramago published this book at the age of 75, the year before he won the Nobel Prize for Literature. He’s the sort of writer who gets described as “importan...
Piperade
This recipe is from one of our favourite cookbooks, Chocolate and Zucchini by Clotilde Dusoulier (2007), which is based on the blog of the same name. Dusouli...
Ready Player One, by Ernest Cline (2011)
This one’s for the geeks, especially those born in the 1970’s and grew up immersed in 1980’s nerd culture. Cline has created a world where the best shot at b...