January 3, 2022

Elise, a fiftysomething writer, has work that she enjoys, a husband of 23 years with whom she is “uncommonly happy”,...

January 1, 2022

After a short five-year hiatus, we returned this year with a longtime CBR tradition. At the end of the year, we polled ...

December 30, 2022

3. ‘Tunnels’ by Rutu Modan  An ancient tablet appears to reveal the location of the Ark of the Covenant, w...

December 30, 2022

BRIANNA HIRAMI WRITES — Historians often skip over the pain that war leaves on the countless hearts of those who have ...

December 20, 2021

The second of a seven-volume collection of the works of influential Japanese cartoonist Yoshiharu Tsuge, “Red Flowers�...

December 18, 2021

[Rutu] Modan’s Tunnels is part-adventure, part-commentary, part-Edwardian farce. In fact, the list of hyphens you cou...

December 17, 2021

When I read a novel about the search for the lost Ark of the Covenant, I expect the plot to head in one of two direction...

December 17, 2021

On the heels of her English-language nonfiction debut for young people – The League of Super Feminists, released las...

December 17, 2021

The Waiting, by Keum Suk Gendry-Kim, translated by Janet Hong (Drawn & Quarterly). Gendry-Kim serves up a profound...

December 16, 2021

Slightly overlooked in the end-of-year lists so far is Guy Delisle’s Factory Summers (Drawn & Quarterly, £17. 9...

December 16, 2021

Fictional Father is the story of a washed-up middle-aged painter named Caleb. Now that he’s sober, he must face...

December 15, 2021

Cyclopedia Exotica by Aminder Dhaliwal (Drawn & Quarterly) “The lives of ten characters in the same city intertwi...