Claire Fontaine Crime Fighter
Tracey Enright (July)
Fontaine, a thirtysomething rich girl, teams with a no-nonsense LAPD detective-turned-private investigator to look into the murder of an even younger good-time gal. Odd-couple antics ensue.

Travel

Getting Stoned With Savages
J. Maarten Troost (June)
In The Sex Lives of Cannibals, travel writer Troost wrote about his life in Kiribati. Here, he tackles Vanuatu and Fiji.

The Shark God
Charles Montgomery (July)
Sit on the beach and read about...the beach? Montgomery pens a memoir about his voyages through the mystery and folklore of the South Pacific.

A Land Gone Lonesome
Dan O'Neill (June)
While recalling 1890s gold rushers, O'Neill canoes down the frigid Yukon River from Canada to Alaska.

Cross Country
Robert Sullivan (July)
The author of Rats takes dozens of drives across the U.S. to explore the enduring American urge to wander across this continent.

Graphic Books

Sloth
Gilbert Hernandez (July)
From the co-creator of Love & Rockets comes this story of modern-day ennui, in which a bored teen slips in and out of a coma.

But I Like It
Joe Sacco (July)
The mind behind serious nonfiction works such as Palestine and Safe Area Gorazde takes a wild turn as he goes on tour with a European punk-rock band.

Get a Life
Dupuy and Berberian (July)
The collaborators on a best-selling French comic collect their early stories about a single Parisian guy and his bohemian lifestyle.

Originally posted Jun 02, 2006 Published in issue #880-881 Jun 09, 2006 Order article reprints
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