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‘Hotel & Farm’ Is Half Hotel, Half Farm, All Nonsense

November 3, 2026November 3, 2026 William Schwartz 0 Comments absurdist fiction, absurdist humor, agriculture, alternative comics, Ben Katchor, book reviews, bureaucracy, comic books, comic strips, comics, consumer culture, contemporary comics, cultural satire, deadpan humor, encyclopedic fiction, experimental comics, experimental storytelling, farming, food culture, fragmented narratives, fruit criticism, Gilbert Silo, graphic novel criticism, graphic novel reviews, graphic novels, Hotel & Farm, hotel culture, illustrated fiction, Jug Oar, literary comics, literary experimentation, new graphic novels, newspaper comics, non sequiturs, nonsensical humor, Pantheon Books, rural life, Seemor Hotel, sequential art, social satire, surreal humor, surrealist comics, unconventional narratives, urban life, visual satire, visual storytelling, worldbuilding, Yalos Finger

New graphic novel from Ben Katchor provides a powerful test of patience

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From Gary Shteyngart’s pursuit of pleasure to Rachel Maddow’s reckoning with American justice, November brings literary ambition, political urgency and some gloriously strange fiction.

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