Dispirited by the deluge of advance review copies and publishing mailers (a plight to which I can relate), Ron Charles decided to forego traditional book criticism for the time being and instead to focus on reviewing something more immediately practical: a bookcase.
Book(case) Criticism
Atwood and Yeats Together
On the Spectrum
What color would The Little Prince be? Before you dismiss this as an inane question, artist Jaz Parkinson created color signatures based on how often books mentioned certain hues. The results look like a better Rothko painting. Pair with: Radiolab's fascinating podcast on the science of color.
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Dōmo arigatō, Charlie Brown
BOOM! Studios will release a graphic novel about Charlie Brown and his friends traveling to Japan entitled It's Tokyo, Charlie Brown!
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Mr. Cromwell
Wolf Hall, you may have heard, is now a TV show, which you can watch on PBS (in the US) and BBC Two (in the UK). Is it good? According to Sonia Saraiya, the adaptation of Hilary Mantel’s novel is eminently worth watching, “a rare adaptation from book to screen that makes the most of what the visual medium can provide.” You could also read our interview with Mantel.
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We Just Turn to the Comics
In the NYRB, a new article on Chris Ware, accompanied by an old joke -- dreamt up by none other than Gore Vidal -- that a hypothetical New York Review of Comic Books might replace its eponymous predecessor. Last week, our own Mark O’Connell reviewed Mr. Ware’s latest book.
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