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The American graphic novelist spoke to Eleanor Wachtel about distilling modern anxieties into brilliant graphic novels.

Nick Drnaso's Acting Class is a story of self-discovery and friendship that descends into something altogether darker and more disturbing

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FOR FIFTEEN YEARS, cartoonist Nick Drnaso has been drawing chromatically flat, eerily domestic graphic novels. Following his debut publication Beverly (2016), a dark collection of interconnected vignettes, Drnaso’s full-length thriller Sabrina (2018) became the first graphic novel to be nominated for a Man Booker Prize. With Acting Class, out today with Drawn & Quarterly, he presents an assortment of strangers who voluntarily disrupt their daily monotony to meet with a mysteriously meri...

The author of Sabrina brings us a discomfiting picture of charlatanism in action

Elsewhere in music: Denise Chaila on the Alternative; Séamus Ó Scanláin interviews Doireann Ní Ghlacáin on R na G; summer swing and jazz on Lyric

The literary cartoonist talks about taking graphic novels mainstream, his feelings of imposter syndrome, and processing his darkest childhood memories in his latest book

The mighty return of Things To Do In London If You Like Comics. Turns out there is lots to do, if you live in and around London. Take a look... Tuesday,

I dont know. >> amazing singers and musicians. >> if you only knew. >> been together so long. >> nobody ever leaves me, proud to say. nobody ever leaves. >> says a lot. >> been with me for i cant even. they love it, i love them. its really a family. im only child, these are my brothers and sisters. really are. >> when did you start with him? >> 1978. ♪ >> rehearsal every day because some piece of something he wants to fix. and you know, you want to be mad, cant be mad at somebody that cares, y...

Written by Lucas Hnath, directed by Patrick White “What about me? What do I get in return?” Four people, with agendas abounding, inhabit this comedy by Lucas Hnath, best known for his play “A Doll’s House, Part Two,” which has been on Broadway and local stages, and will be seen once again this summer in Bennington, Vermont. Set in a nursing home, “Death Tax” concerns Maxine, a woman who intends to cut her ungrateful daughter out of her will in an ingenious, not to say devious, man...