Theories of Everything: Selected, Collected, and Health-Inspected Cartoons, 1978-2006

Since she sold her first cartoon to The New Yorker in 1978, Roz Chast has won a place as one of the greatest artistic chroniclers of the anxieties, superstitions, furies, insecurities, and surreal imaginings of modern life. Now, in this wonderfully comprehensive collection spanning nearly three decades and arranged chronologically, the world of Roz Chast emerges as one just as distinctive as those of Charles Addams and James Thurber. Drawn from the pages of magazines including Scientific American and Redbook as well as The New Yorker, Theories of Everything brings together, for the first time, the very best of Roz Chast.