Nor is this the first to demand extraordinary things from the reader. Before Monograph, there was Building Stories. As Ware fans will know, this is not his first big and tall book. The book arrived in a huge box, twenty-two inches square by four inches tall (I measured it). Thing is, our red and blue teams can’t play ball if they can’t agree on whether the ball is legitimate, or whether it’s legal for the players to own assault weapons.I was terrified of Chris Ware’s new book, Monograph, and when it landed on my doorstep, I found my fears well-grounded. But all I came up with were Olympic-medal counts, links to the NFL, and player stats. A few years ago, I inadvertently discovered an un-Google-able topic while trying to find the nation on planet Earth which ranked sports as the least valuable human activity, because I’d decided that was where I’d move my family. I was buoyed by the brief flirtation with reality that the January 6th hearings have resurrected in a sliver of the G.O.P., but now the Texas Republican party’s vote to adopt a platform that asserts the illegitimacy of Biden’s electoral victory makes it feel as if something very, very, very bad is about to happen.ĭo you often get into political arguments?Ībout as often as I discuss sports. Sometimes it seems the only thing that the left and right can agree on is that compromise is laughably naïve. But Internet algorithms have put us at an uncompromising moment of nonconsensual reality. I was taught in school that the American experiment was rooted in consensus and compromise. ![]() You have never been an optimist, but does this moment feel worse than usual? The corner sort of felt like a suburban Thirty-eighth Parallel, an asphalt moat through which much of the town drove. Although I never witnessed any shouting or fisticuffs, I often wondered how the residents of the two houses might have got along. The houses were divided by the nostalgically named Pleasant Street. One house’s yard was decorated with Obama campaign signs and the other-unusually, for left-leaning Oak Park-with McCain-Palin placards. Bush Administration, I lived in Oak Park, Illinois, and would regularly pass a corner with two houses. We talked to Ware about his inspiration for this image of a divided America.īack in the old days of the George W. Wade-and a cause for celebration for others. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, a decision that is at once devastating to many Americans-two-thirds of whom were against overturning Roe v. A day later, the Court eliminated the constitutional right to abortion, with its ruling on Dobbs v. Down the street, the Supreme Court struck down, on June 23rd, a New York state law restricting the ability to carry a gun in public, even as the Senate voted to pass gun-control legislation in the aftermath of the Uvalde school shooting. As suburban real-estate agents prepare to carpet the nation’s lawns with miniature flags, millions of Americans are riveted to the proceedings of the House select committee investigating the January 6th attack on the Capitol. ![]() His cover for the July 4, 2022, issue of the magazine captures the divides underlying this year’s Independence Day celebrations. “Am I laughably naïve to think we might all somehow grow up and continue this relatively youngish two-hundred-and-forty-six-year-old experiment? I’m starting to think I am,” the artist Chris Ware said.
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