Sarah Boxer

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Berlin Before the Storm

Hamlet, My Prince of Pigs

You’ll see that Hamlet: Prince of Pigs has been stripped of all fat. And tragedy minus many words is comedy. A pared-down Hamlet is a funny Hamlet. Here are a few scenes from my tragicomic.

Being Chris Ware

Chris Ware’s grandmother is everywhere in his work, and the passages about the end of her life are his finest writing. This grandmotherly kernel, which he has in common with Proust, is something I did not know about Ware before reading Monograph.

Remembering Bob Silvers

On the late editor of The New York Review

Growing Up Arab

‘I Work Against Ego’: The Art of Hedda Sterne

In “The Last Irascible,” my new essay in the *The New York Review*, I write about the idiosyncratic life of the hundred-year-old artist Hedda Sterne, drawing on an interview I recorded with her in 2003.

The Last Irascible

Blogs

His Inner Cat

Nearly a century after George Herriman started Krazy Kat, the endlessly perplexing, energetic, deep, and playful comic strip still feels new.