A new profile of Celia Paul by Karl Ove Knausgård appeared in the February 3 edition of The New Yorker. An admirer of Paul and her work, Knausgård interviewed the artist in her longtime studio and was able to view a number of her new and recent paintings. Several times in the piece, he mentions and quotes from what he refers to as Paul’s “autobiography,“ Self-Portrait, published by New York Review Books in 2020.

From Ted to Tom: The Illustrated Envelopes of Edward Gorey, a new collection of never-before-seen illustrations and letters by the famed American writer and artist, will be published in the New York Review Books series next month. Assembling fifty wonderfully illustrated envelopes—and a selection of the letters within them—sent by Gorey to his friend Tom Fitzharris during the mid-1970s, the book captures what it might be like to be pen pals with one of twentieth-century literature’s most wonderfully eccentric figures. Below, you can get a sneak peek at the first three envelopes (and one of the letters) included in the book.

Blurry by Dash Shaw and Spiral and Other Stories by Aidan Koch were named in the Washington Post's 10 best graphic novels of 2024.