Jon Macy’s graphic biography of Djuna Barnes, the celebrated novelist of lesbian love most famous for a work that T.S. Eliot championed, “Nightwood,” calls to mind a declaration by Samuel Johnson: ...

Her short fiction provides an odd glimpse at a writer whose interests move beyond the human and into something more inchoate.

So says one of the characters in Djuna Barnes’s 1936 modernist novel “Nightwood,” set in the 1920s and defined by the intense grief, alienation and passion of its characters. It’s the ...

They include: -- John Augustus Roebling, designer of the Brooklyn Bridge, in 1806 -- Artist Egon Schiele in 1890 -- Artist/writer Djuna Barnes in 1892 -- Entrepreneur David Rockefeller in 1915 ...