New York. Seven Stories Press. 2022. 235 pages. AS TOLD TO journalist Rozenn Morgat by Gulbahar Haitiwaji, and beautifully translated by Edward Gauvin, this is a current and dee…

Photo by Ajeet Mestry on Unsplash The Alarm The television had announced the imminence of an attack. Would it be a bomb? Bacteria? A weapon previously unheard of?      Everyo…

“Gravity” by Dani Montesinos Feet to Feet   My wife and I have a way of sleeping that might seem a bit bizarre: neither face-to-face nor back-to-back, but with the soles of our feet pressed…

Photo: Michael Gaida/Pixabay Following a hysterectomy, a woman is drawn to the gothic ambience of a stone statuary garden at her lover’s family’s home. My third sleepless night i…

Photo: Daria Nepriakhina/PixabayThe old man lived in a vast, dark house, windows blind with frosted glass, door adorned with a heavy bronze knocker.At one time or another, all five of his children had…

Duo III, 2013, oil on canvas by André Schulze Courtesy of the artist/andreschulze.comA mother inside, a daughter outside. Has her mother shrunk, or has she always been a…

New York. New Vessel Press. 2017. 200 pages.Moving the Palace won both the François Mauriac Prize from the Académie Française and the Prix Tropiques, so one opens its pages with high expectat…

Minneapolis, Minnesota. Uncivilized Books. 2016. 186 pages.Through a series of vignettes depicting the personal life and sexual escapades of Julius Mordecai Pincas (Pascin), French cartoonist Joann Sf…

Brooklyn. Melville House. 2016. 196 pages.Serge Brussolo is largely unknown in the English-speaking world; The Deep Sea Diver’s Syndrome is the first of his books to be translated into Englis…

New York. New York Review Comics. 2016. 160 pages.“The nostalgia for purity, the ghost of a perfect love—these are a drunkard’s despair.”Spoken by the work’s impostor protagonist’s seemingly mute “lit…

Edward Gauvin, tr. Christophe Blain, ill. London / New York. SelfMadeHero / Abrams. 2014. ISBN 9781906838782Weapons of Mass Diplomacy demonstrates indisputably that a graphic novel can p…