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Textbook Trials and Tribulations
With college courses either in session or looming on the horizon, it’s time for the semi-annual reminder that textbook pricing is a whole lot of yikes, and there are no winners among students or publishers. This piece shares some of the ways higher ed publishers and institutions are disrupting traditional textbook distribution.
Joan Watson Look Book
“Elementary” is one of our favorite Holmesian adaptations, and Lucy Liu’s Joan Watson is a role model in countless ways. Here’s a post if you’re looking to steal her style.
Say It With Me Now: All Art Is Political
So Art Spiegelman is a comics legend. He won a Pulitzer Prize for Maus, the postmodern graphic novel/memoir about Spiegelman’s father’s Holocaust memories. He was asked to contribute an introduction to a Folio Society collection of Marvel Golden Age comics, and he wrote an excellent essay about how comic book superheroes were some of the first and most powerful ways popular culture pushed back against fascism. He drew comparisons between the 1940s and the present era. And Marvel asked that he revise his essay to be apolitical. Instead, Spiegelman withdrew it, submitting it to the Guardian instead. You can read his essay in its entirety here.