Book of the Moment

September 7 sees the release of Art Spiegelman's first book since his Pulitzer-prize winner Maus about 15 years ago. In the Shadow of No Towers finds Spiegelman graphically describing, "the unfathomable enormity of the event itself, the obvious and insidious effects it had on his life, and the extraordinary, often hidden changes that have been enacted in the name of post-9/11 national security and that have begun to undermine the very foundation of American democracy."



Portions of the new book can be found in McSweeney's Issue 13, and have appropriately been run in the Chicago Reader, since the book's format echoes early newspapers, according to the publisher. If No Towers follows the precedent of Maus, it should a moving illustration of how one man coped with tragedy while also resonating with the reader.