The Tenderness of Stones

Marion Fayolle’s The Tenderness of Stones, a single-issue comic from The New York Review of Books (2019–present), is a spare, poetic meditation on grief and the physical traces left by a loved one. Fayolle writes and illustrates this intimate work, using surreal, delicate imagery to explore how memory and loss settle into the body and the objects we touch. Its quiet power lies in transforming raw emotion into a visual language that feels both deeply personal and universally resonant.