Where Stevenson’s contemporaries explored specific tensions within the Victorian psyche, 'Jekyll and Hyde' pinned the split personality of the era to the page.
He’d imagined himself in an office with parquet floors and brass fixtures. Maybe even a bar cart. The reality of public service had turned out to be a little different.
Somehow the idea of a near-future world in which childless couples can purchase sophisticated robotic kids powered by AI doesn't seem all that far fetched.
Commissioned by the celebrated jazz recording label Blue Note Records, Dave Chisholm’s new graphic novel Enter The Blue is a whimsical tribute to the origin of the record company and its long and distinguished history.
Our goal in selecting texts from across this vast expanse and uniting them under this rubric is to reclaim and redistribute the name America, fraught provenance and all.
This seven-page excerpt documents the 1990 Oka Crisis, a 77-day armed standoff with Canadian police and military in the Mohawk territories of the Kahnawake and Kanesatake near Montreal.
In this short excerpt from Run, the late Rep. John Lewis reflects on growing political factions within the ranks of the Black Civil Rights Movement and acknowledges the global nature of the Black liberation movement.
When you really live, and when you really tackle that life in your art, the pages never quite end. The narration might drop out, but the story is still in motion. If done right, the border blurs, the boundaries of life and of art fade into each other.
In this eight-page excerpt, efforts to research a slave revolt in 1712 in New York City lead to the vast and sometimes restricted 18th-century slave trade archives in New York City, London, and Liverpool.
In this eight-page excerpt, National Book Award-winner Nate Powell surveys life in a liberal college town surrounded by white supremacist activity, sundown towns, and local fascists.
