Tahneer Oksman (tahneeroksman.com) is a writer, teacher, and scholar specializing in memoir as well as graphic novels and comics. Currently, she is writing a grief memoir about grief memoirs—a meta-grief memoir. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.
Tahneer Oksman
Articles
The Drawers Keep Popping Open: On Sloane Crosley’s “Grief Is for People”
Tahneer Oksman reviews Sloane Crosley’s “Grief Is for People.”
Tell Them It Is Going to Hurt: On Meg Kissinger’s “While You Were Out”
Tahneer Oksman reviews Meg Kissinger’s “While You Were Out: An Intimate Family Portrait of Mental Illness in an Era of Silence.”
“I Really Had to Reinvent Myself”: An Interview with Julie Doucet
Tahneer Oksman talks to Julie Doucet about her new collection, "Dirty Plotte: The Complete Julie Doucet."
As Long as You Stay Alive There’s Hope: An Interview with Aline Kominsky-Crumb
Tahneer Oksman talks to comics artist Aline Kominsky-Crumb about her recently reissued collection, "Love That Bunch."
“The Things That Scare You”: Dominique Goblet’s “Pretending Is Lying”
Tahneer Oksman on the images that can override images in Dominique Goblet's graphic memoir "Pretending Is Lying."
Reading Aloud with Julie Doucet
Each Julie Doucet collection is full of surprises, reflecting the artist’s investment in materiality and language. "Carpet Sweeper Tales" is no different.
The Unapologetic Pursuit of Pleasure
Rancourt's undertakings require the kind of bravura that emerges from a heroically unapologetic pursuit of pleasure.
An Aesthetic of Expansiveness: Drawn and Quarterly at 25 Years
Drawn & Quarterly publishes a who’s who of the contemporary comics world.
Escape from a Life Without Waves: Julie Delporte’s “Everywhere Antennas”
Tahneer Oksman on the graphic novel "Everywhere Antennas."
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