Tintin Tales

The Timeless Allure Of Tintin's Aesthetics

Ryan M. Allen | College Towns | 6th January 2025

Tintin creator Georges Remi used a consistent colour palette and the dark outlines of the "ligne claire" style to make each panel of his comic a work of art. The Adventures of Tintin exhibit "a sense of scaled urbanism as well as the naturalistic world in fantastical yet real places". It is hard not to feel emotional, for instance, at the drawing of Tintin and Snowy seeing the skyline of New York City for the first time (1,700 words)

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Wild Animal Tales

Ludmilla Petrushevskaya | Paris Review | 24th April 2025

Petrushevskaya, now into her eighties, grew up in the Soviet Union under Stalin "shuttling between orphanages, Young Pioneer camps, and tuberculosis sanatoria". In 1993, she produced a series of uncategorisable tales populated by animal characters who would seem to belong in a children's book, except for the fact that they have adult lives and concerns. These extracts are weird and compelling (2,600 words)