How do you handle dark and serious material in a graphic novel?

Hillary's shoot, our graphic novel columnist, will talk to us about three new books that take

on slavery, racism, and genocide.

What's it like to be a literary matchmaker?

Our matchbook columnist Nicole Lamey will be here to talk about her trade.

Alexander Alder will give us an update from the publishing world.

Plus, we'll talk about what we and the wider world are reading.

This is the Book Review Podcast from the New York Times.

I'm Pamela Paul.

Hillary's shoot joins us now from Cambridge, Massachusetts.

She is one of our graphic novel columnists here at the Book Review and also a professor

of English and art and design at Northeastern University.

Hillary, thanks so much for being here.

Thanks for having me.

And you are also a repeat guest on the podcast you joined us here last year with your most

recent book, Why Comics, from Underground to Everywhere.

Probably not out in paperback yet, but certainly out in Hardcover.

Certainly out in Hardcover, yes.

All right.

So this week in your column, you reviewed three books.

Just going to go quickly over the titles and then we could talk about each of them and

about why you chose them.

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