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...Eyes Wide Shut, Stanley Kubrick's long-delayed final film brought to cinephiles. Though Spiegelman's name may not be as well known to the general public as Kubrick's, his 1986 Holocaust memoir Maus, featuring cats as Nazis and mice as Jews, remains the most recognized graphic novel ever published. In spite of this, Spiegelman became, as he says in the introduction to his new book, "like some farmer being paid not to grow wheat," writing essays and doing cover art for The New Yorker rather than doing new comix. Then came September 11, 2001, which...
Marjane Satrapi, an Iranian expatriate, was embraced by the comic-book world when her graphic novel Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood was published in English last year. Her autobiographical tale of a restless girlhood during the Islamic revolution in Iran, told in stark black and white, drew comparisons to Art Spiegelman and his Pulitzer-prizewinning Maus. This month Satrapi is back with her next installment, Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return. Part one found Satrapi and her family facing and surviving war, revolution, religious oppression and the execution of several loved ones. Part two begins with Satrapi...
Satrapi, 34, is now a leader of a new revolution--a graphic-novel rebellion in which personal tales can be told in comic form. "I absolutely think that it is time for the comic to evolve," she says. But her truth telling has its consequences. She has not returned to her homeland since the publication of her first book, instead making her home in Paris. "Not because I have been exactly threatened," she says, "but because people who are telling the same truths in my country are jailed. Or worse...
...dazzling 2000 debut, Ghostwritten, David Mitchell gave us what could be called the first novel of the 21st century, a truly global work of fiction that set stories in Japan, China, London, New York City and elsewhere and somehow wove them into a single tale about the transmigration of souls. In Cloud Atlas, his third novel, the prodigiously talented Briton, 35, tries to do with time what he earlier did with space. Six tales crisscross--moving between Belgium in 1931 and a genomic future in which North Korea has discovered genetic engineering--and so suggest that all times...
...showcases a high-wire artist who dares us to think of a unified theory of humanity and how "souls cross the skies o' time." Mitchell writes with such bravado and intensity that he can make us believe--as he clearly does--that there's life in the old-media novel...