Nadja Spiegelman

A Vogue Best Book of the Year "What Ferrante did for female friends--exploring the tumult and complexity their relationships could hold--Spiegelman sets out to do for mothers and daughters. She's essentially written My Brilliant Mom." --Slate A memoir of mothers and daughters--and mothers as daughters--traced through four generations, from Paris to New York and back again. For a long time, Nadja Spiegelman believed her mother was a fairy. More than her famous father, Maus creator Art Spiegelman, and even more than most mothers, hers--French-born New Yorker art director Françoise Mouly--exerted a force over reality that was both dazzling and daunting. As Nadja's body changed and "began to whisper to the adults around me in a language I did not understand," their relationship grew tense. Unwittingly, they were replaying a drama from her mother's past, a drama Nadja sensed but had never been told. Then, after college, her mother suddenly opened up to her. Françoise recounted her turbulent adolescence caught between a volatile mother and a playboy father, one of the first plastic surgeons in France. The weight of the difficult stories she told her daughter shifted the balance between them. It had taken an ocean to allow Françoise the distance to become her own person. At about the same age, Nadja made the journey in reverse, moving to Paris determined to get to know the woman her mother had fled. Her grandmother's memories contradicted her mother's at nearly every turn, but beneath them lay a difficult history of her own. Nadja emerged with a deeper understanding of how each generation reshapes the past in order to forge ahead, their narratives both weapon and defense, eternally in conflict. Every reader will recognize herself and her family in I'm Supposed to Protect You From All This, a gorgeous and heartbreaking memoir that helps us to see why sometimes those who love us best hurt us most.

A Memoir

I'm Supposed to Protect You from All this

Sergio Garcia Sanchez

"After getting separated from his teacher, his classmates, and his trip partner during an outing to the Empire State Building, Pablo, the new kid in school, learns to navigate the New York City subway system as well as his own feelings towards making newfriends and living in a big city"--Provided by publisher.

A Subway Adventure

Lost in NYC

A Folktale from Latin America

Blancaflor, the Hero with Secret Powers

Dovrei proteggerti da tutto questo

Astra Magazine is the new literary magazine of the moment, a must-read for anyone interested in the most vital contemporary literature from around the world. Astra Magazine connects readers and writers from New York to Mexico City, Lagos to Berlin, Copenhagen to Singapore and beyond. Each issue contains prose, poetry, art and comics, artfully produced on silky smooth paper with luxurious French flaps. It's the most covetable accessory of the fall — dark and playful, pretty and smart. The Filth issue features work by Elif Batuman, Sheila Heti, Raven Leilani, Aracelis Girmay, Samuel R. Delany, Brontez Purnell, Wayne Koestenbaum, Clarice Lispector, McKenzie Wark, Mariana Enríquez, Safiya Sinclair, Maggie Millner, and many more. There is a moral element to filth. It is both what we have been taught to hide, and the subversive pleasure in revealing it. Many of the writers in this issue are queer or trans or otherwise outsiders. When you are taught that an intrinsic part of you is shameful, you find power in that shame. All that filth, compressed by the pressure, sparkles like diamonds when it is let it into the light. Have you ever felt the relief of telling your own secrets? There’s a reason why people revel in their own filth. It’s a place for reveling

Issue Two

Astra Magazine, Filth

Pablo's first day in a New York City school quickly goes off the rails during a field trip. Pablo accidentally gets on the wrong train, but finds his way with help from a new friend and from the city itself. This story - which features maps, archival photos, and fascinating facts - will help readers explore the subway without leaving their seats. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Spotlight is a division of ABDO.

Lost on a school fieldtrip, Pablo learns to navigate the New York subway and his feelings about his new home.

A TOON Graphic

Lost in NYC: a Subway Adventure

Issue No. 3 - Prophets & Aliens

Astra Magazine

Astra Magazine is a brand new international literary magazine, an emerging must-read for anyone interested in the best new literature from around the world. Astra Magazine will connect readers and writers from around the world - New York to Mexico City, Lagos to Berlin, Copenhagen to Singapore and beyond. We want to bring about a new, borderless, and vital mode of reading. Astra is a magazine for our new moment, bringing us together while, the world over, we create new language for ourselves. Issue No.1: Ecstasy explores many ways we experience ecstasy — in pain and pleasure, through ourselves and others, through turmoil and peace. This issue collects writing that is engaged with the world, transcending distance and confinement through exuberance and excess. Featuring thrilling new work from Mieko Kawakami, Catherine Lacey, Leslie Jamison, Fernanda Melchor, Terrance Hayes, Dorthe Nors, Kate Zambreno, Katharina Volckmer, Ada Limón, Solmaz Sharif, Jos Charles, Chinelo Okperanta, and many more

Issue One

Astra Magazine, Ecstasy

Astra Magazine is a brand new international literary magazine, an emerging must-read for anyone interested in the best new literature from around the world. Astra Magazine will connect readers and writers from around the world - New York to Mexico City, Lagos to Berlin, Copenhagen to Singapore and beyond. We want to bring about a new, borderless, and vital mode of reading, with a focus on literature in translation and original writing in English. We’re interested in the inter: the overlaps, the in-between, the authors who defy easy categorization. We are on the cusp of a new era, more isolated and more interconnected than ever before. Astra is a magazine of this new moment, bringing us together while, the world over, we create a new language for ourselves.

Zig and Wikki arrive on Earth to seach for a pet for Zig's class assignment.

Zig and Wikki in Something Ate My Homework

Sergio García Sánchez

A damsel to the rescue! Raised by a mean ogre of a father who eats his opponents for dinner, Blancaflor is often told not to show off her own considerable powers for fear of scaring off suitors. When a prince falls from the sky and wakes up in her lap, she is spellbound and moves heaven and earth to help the endearing, yet not so clever, young man, all while trying not to let him know. With their trademark magnificent brio, Nadja Spiegelman and Sergio García Sánchez update a classic tale extolling the strength and resourcefulness of women.

The Hero with Secret Powers : a Folktale from Latin America

Blancaflor

Zig and Wikki land on a planet full of strange creatures like flies, frogs, and raccoons, just when it seems to be lunchtime!

When alien pals Zig and Wikki lose their spaceship on Earth, their friendship is definitely in trouble. In order to get home, they must travel through a farm and into a cow, picking up fun facts about ecology (and picking fights) along the way.

Zig and Wikki in the Cow (Level 3)

Can cow poop help two friends patch up thir friendship?

TOON Level 3

Zig and Wikki in the Cow

Nadja Spiegelman erzählt mehr als ihre eigene Geschichte. Sie zeichnet die Lebenswege dreier Frauen nach, deren Schicksale kaum enger miteinander verknüpft sein könnten. Ein eindrucksvolles Debüt über die blinden Flecken in Familien, über die Unzuverlässigkeit unserer Erinnerung und über die Kraft des Erzählens. Als Kind glaubt Nadja Spiegelman, ihre Mutter sei eine Fee. Ein besonderer Zauber umgibt Françoise Mouly, die erfolgreiche Art-Direktorin des New Yorker. Erst Jahre später, als Nadja allmählich zur Frau wird, bricht dieser Zauber. Immer häufiger trifft sie die plötzliche Wut der Mutter, ihre Zurückweisung, ihre Verschlossenheit. Nadja ahnt, dass sich in Françoises Ausbrüchen deren eigene Familiengeschichte widerspiegelt, und sie beginnt, der Vergangenheit nachzuspüren. In langen Gesprächen mit ihrer Mutter und ihrer Großmutter stößt sie auf unsagbaren Schmerz und widerstreitende Erinnerungen, aber auch auf die Möglichkeit, im Erzählen einen versöhnlichen Blick auf die Vergangenheit zu finden. Ein poetisches, zutiefst ehrliches Buch, das offenlegt, warum uns die, die wir am meisten lieben, häufig am stärksten verletzen.

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For use in schools and libraries only. Zig and Wikki arrive on earth to search for a pet for Zig's class assignment.

Nadja Spiegelman

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