Molly Crabapple on Making Art in a Turbulent World

Molly Crabapple is an artist and writer who documents the extremes, from nightclubs to war zones. She’s also the author of several books, including Drawing Blood and Brothers of the Gun , a memoir of the Syrian War co-written with Marwan Hisham. We sat down with Crabapple to talk about the difference between words and images, making art in the world, and the power of cartoonists to disrupt fascism. You can read a transcript of this episode here . And check out the following links: Check out our booklist with books recommended for this episode. Read Molly Crabapple’s Drawing Blood , and you can pre-order her new book about the Jewish Labor Bund. See Molly’s drawings and articles about the Dallas Six and the NYC taxi driver strike . You can also read Molly’s interview with Art Spiegelman . Art Spiegelman’s comic collaboration with Joe Sacco was published in The New York Review of Books earlier this year. You can check out Sacco’s Palestine and his more recent War on Gaza from the library.

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Molly Crabapple on Making Art in a Turbulent World is an episode from Borrowed by Brooklyn Public Library.

This episode is 19:07 long.

This episode was published on Oct 7, 2025.

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