The Dancing Plague New:New Rowan Hisayo Buchanan’s Starling Days—written

Rowan Hisayo Buchanan’s Starling Days—written in exquisite prose rich with lightly ironic empathy—is a complex and compelling work of fiction by a singularly gifted young writer

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and their work is undeniably beautiful

The Life & Love of Dogs

Maria Callas to Mariah Carey

The Dancing Plague New:New Rowan Hisayo Buchanan’s Starling Days—writtenThis utterly original graphic novel tells the true story of when hundreds of a town's inhabitants were suddenly seized by the strange and unstoppable compulsion to dance. The Dancing Plague is a visually striking graphic work about the 1518 Strasbourg dancing plague, using embroidery and pyrography to turn medieval mass hysteria into something darkly beautiful and unsettling on the page. It shows how art can make even a halfforgotten catastrophe feel