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American Comics and the Jews that Love Themnew

The most powerful aspect of Jews and American Comics is not Paul Buhle's writing, but rather his selection of work from some of the medium’s most notable creators, which often paints a more complete cross-section of the subject matter than his sometimes-rushed text.
New York Press  |  Brian Heater  |  08-25-2008  |  Nonfiction

History Lessons, Courtesy of Nicholson Baker and Howard Zinnnew

Human Smoke is itself a kind of reference work: a series of short reports -- some only a paragraph long and most of them drawn from newspaper accounts, diaries, documents, letters, memoirs, memos, and public speeches, with Baker doing the assembling and providing the timeline and context.
The Memphis Flyer  |  Leonard Gill  |  04-25-2008  |  Nonfiction

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