Paying The Land

Paying The LandFrom the heir to R. Crumb and Art Spiegelman (The Economist), a masterful work of comics journalism about indigenous North America, resource extraction, and our debt to the natural world The Dene have lived in the vast Mackenzie River Valley since time immemorial, by their account. To the Dene, the land owns them, not the other way around, and it is central to their livelihood and very way of being. But the subarctic Canadian Northwest Territories are

emphasizing the importance of embracing both human limitations and God’s limitless love

and gilded with resounding empathy

of remembering

due for release in North America in 2006

the origins of obscure accents

and Little Simz

a passive gesture

The unravelling of Hong Kong

He brings characteristic eloquence and inexhaustible enthusiasm to readings of Plato

deeply probing

and diaries—David Henkin reveals how our current devotion to weekly rhythms emerged in the United States during the first half of the nineteenth century

The recent spate of protest action involving art even seems inspired by the book — people have said as much online — and the resonances keep coming