tahneer oksman Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
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Tahneer Oksman is a professor and writer. Professor; freelance writer; freelance editor; reviewer, memoir, comics & graphic novels for @npr @wapo & others; illustration by @lianafinck
Einstein in Kafkaland: How Albert Fell Down the Rabbit Hole and Came Up with the Universe
Ken Krimsteintahneer oksmanThe author of the brilliant and whimsical The Three Escapes of Hannah Arendt similarly translates careful research into scenic, emotive comics — in this case tracking the potential effects of an adventitious meeting in Prague between two geniuses on the cusp of world-changing discoveries.
Hardcover, 2024
$32.00$16.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Talk
Darrin Belltahneer oksmanThe Talk is Pulitzer-prize winning editorial cartoonist Bell's debut graphic memoir, a stunning account of a young Black man navigating his way through Los Angeles and Berkeley in the 1980s and '90...The illustrations…are as multi-tiered and engrossing as Bell's narrative voice.
Hardcover, 2023
$29.99$14.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Swing Time
Zadie Smithtahneer oksman"It's just a new way to work--you've always had to find new ways to work. Photography is a challenge to painting, and the internet is a challenge to a certain kind of prose. That's fine." -Zadie Smith, 2018 interview (on Swing Time)
Paperback, 2017
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Hey, Kiddo: A Graphic Novel
Jarrett J. Krosoczkatahneer oksmanA bittersweet follow up to Hey, Kiddo, from Jarrett J. Krosoczka--my latest for NPR... https://t.co/q7aetQiD9j
Paperback, 2018
$14.99$7.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book