Todd McEwen’s novels include ‘Who Sleeps With Katz’ and ‘The Five Simple Machines’ (both published by CBeditions).
The Disney star was a marvel of 20th-century industrial production and the Second World War was his finest hour, writes Todd McEwen
A briny, brawny late work by Maine’s favourite modernist finds strength in stoic silence
Todd McEwen leafs through a history of the underground pot-culture press
On the centenary of Charles M. Schulz’s birth, the cartoonist’s greatest creation still sums up the hopes and fears of the nuclear age
The seaside scenes of Willie Rodger aren’t necessarily a sunny affair, but they are always full of life
James John Audubon’s illustrations of birds endure to this day, even if many of the species he depicted didn’t make it
The painter has created a fictitious world called Naboland which he explores with the help of a rusty submersible
Typewriters may be museum pieces now, but they created office jobs for women and by doing so changed the 20th century
The pages of US periodicals trumpet a country making it up as it went along, covering everything from prohibition to pulp fiction
The city’s most devoted citizen explains urban life to Martin Scorsese
