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"Why an Indian publisher dropped Joe Sacco’s new book on a riot in north India" ... "In The Once and Future Riot, Joe Sacco narrates the explosion and aftermath of Hindu-Muslim riots that occurred late in the summer of 2013, in the Muzaffarnagar district of Uttar Pradesh. Sacco’s chronology is granular, and his art feels hectic and thronged, as if to convey the tumult and panic of those weeks. But he also asks the question: why do such riots happen? In this case, he concludes, political parti...