“In May of 1796, the French Directory ordered Napoleon Bonaparte, its star general, to steal some art.” So begins Lily Meyer’s fascinating review of Plunder, Cynthia Saltzman’s new book on France’s calculated artistic kleptomania.

Equally engrossing is a new graphic novel about the trials and tribulations of a community of cyclops. A parody of the encyclopedic form, Ysabelle Cheung writes that it “encourages us to think about tokenism and fetishization in relation to visibility.”

Happy reading.