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Pekar grew up as the child of Polish-Jewish immigrants in Cleveland during the 1940s and 50s. As a result, much of The Quitter involves the classic American literary theme of assimilation. Though extremely popular in other mediums, this theme, again, has gotten little attention in comix except obliquely, through...
These anachronisms do more than just entertain. Rather than portraying David as a monument to Jewish leadership—as Pinsky says Talmudic scholars who “need their king” do—the book shows him for what he was: a real person, with as many...
And hence the particular character of Harvardians seeking sports careers. The myth of the lazy, Doritos-chawing couch potato has long been replaced by the reality of the well-educated, successful, and unabashed fanatic.
Drilling was one of the animators working earlier this year as the shooting of Were-Rabbit raced to its close in the Aardman sound stage, a huge warren of 30 curtained sets, some that could fit on an office desk, some about the size of the model-train layout in...
The religious and the profane mix in Rome, and never more than during the Christmas holiday season. The Fair of the Befana explodes in the baroque Piazza Navona on Dec. 8 and continues until Jan. 6. Befana, a witchlike character, is said to arrive in homes on Epiphany to bring...