Fortunately, the oversight has since been rectified, and I can't wait to dive into his latest revisionist historical, which our review calls a 'brain-bending' portrayal of the 1519 meeting between Cortes and Moctezuma.
It's been a minute since Fanon's been the subject of a major biography, and Shatz proves more than up to the task of elucidating the interplay between the psychoanalyst's biography and his anti-colonialist theory.
Shor's unmooring debut memoir throws back to the confrontational work of Phoebe Gloeckner mixed with the cool analysis of Una's Becoming Unbecoming. She gives trauma a visceral, palpable portrayal through artwork that's both jarringly grotesque and hauntingly beautiful in turns-much like the narrative of her coming-of-age and reckoning with childhood sexual abuse. It's a messy work in appealing ways; she doesn't pander to make a terrible topic palatable-and will remind readers why graphic memoir is so powerful for its untidy borders and raw storytelling.
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