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Just as the archdiocese of Boston was contemplating filing for bankruptcy last week to cope with the estimated 450 civil sex-abuse suits against it, two top Vatican officials were pointing fingers elsewhere. German Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, perhaps the most powerful policymaker in Rome besides the Pope, told a Catholic...
Ten years after his first book, "Flood!," appeared and won an American Book Award, Drooker has released a kind of follow-up, "Blood Song" (Harcourt, Inc.; 300 pp.; $20). (A new edition of "Flood!" is being concurrently released by Dark Horse Comics.) Both "Flood!" and "Blood Song" continue Masereel's...
As a child in Berkeley, Calif., Rossoukh’s early role model was Indiana Jones; that his hero was a cinematic archaeologist perhaps affected his choice to study anthropology here at Harvard. A more immediate influence, however, was the two-and-a-half-year period after his graduation from...
Teenage girls who, by some miracle, aren't automatically turned off by the insecure machismo of mainstream comicbooks would have to hunt pretty hard for stories that were remotely about their lives. How remarkable then that four different books, each by a woman cartoonist writing about growing up, have appeared...
Whether change will be deep or lasting remains unclear. The countryside of North Korea is a veneer of pastoral isolation masking severe poverty and privation. Small hamlets of white-washed cottages nestle between rice paddies and corn fields, where teams of farmers still work with hoes and sickles. Hardly a...