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In the age of George W. Bush and Al Qaeda, it’s easy to lose sight of what is ultimately the most important conflict of all: the battle to save the environment.

I picture an “erotic writing workshop” as a combination of high school sex ed and a visit to the hot tub with the orotund and libidinous literature professors played by Will Ferrell and Rachel Dratch on Saturday Night Live – ridiculously arch and lubricious at the same time. But what …

Art comics guru Art Spiegelman's flawed but fascinating take on 9-11. . .

Mark Evanier's latest ace collection of comics and pop culture essays. . .

Volume One in Courtney Love's new manga graphic novel series. . .

Though his New Yorkers live somewhat dreamy lives, Rinaldi’s New York is not a modern-day version of Mark Helprin’s from A Winter’s Tale (though Echo Terrace’s rooftop Independence Day party bears a distant relation to Helprin’s images of TB victims lying on rooftops all over Manhattan). It’s not even Woody Allen’s. It’s the real thing.

A graphic novel look at life as a free-lance supervillain henchman. . .

Rock star, blogger, philosopher, songwriter, Blogcritics: Dr. Frank is now a novelist: Dr. Frank, the songwriter behind one of punk’s most influential bands, has just announced that his novel, “King Dork” will be published by Delacorte, a young adult division of Random House. Dr. Frank’s band, The Mr .T Experience, …

Julia Child died today in Santa Barbara, California at the age of 91. Serious foodies and those of us old enough to remember her first television appearances know that Julia revolutionized cooking in America. Her television career began in Boston in 1963, and for those of us who grew up …

Chokeberry Days + Murder Most Foul