Namio Harukawa Virago Sophie Yanow’s The Contradictions is

Sophie Yanow’s The Contradictions is a fascinating study of making friends

Instead of a traditional written diary

and we want to know about all of the them

New York Times and New Yorker illustrator Jillian Tamaki is best known for co-creating the award-winning young adult graphic novels Skim and This One Summer–moody and atmospheric bestsellers

convincing as bodies in the world

Namio Harukawa Virago Sophie Yanow’s The Contradictions isBy Namio Harukawa. Published by Baron Books. Hardcover, 76 pages, Colour and B&W, 2021. Baron is pleased to present the first posthumous book by artist Namio Harukawa (May 1947 April 24, 2020), dedicated to Harukawas archive of rarely published work. Creating a visionary language through the medium of pencil drawings, Harukawa worked for 60 years under a pseudonym, Namio Harukawa: formed from an anagram of Naomi, a reference to Junichir Tanizakis