“Her visual biographies …are a delight to the eye, but also show a new way of revealing the contours and dimensions of past lives. “My wonder never ceased as I turned these pages.” “Deft narrative and vivid illustrations…create a thoroughly modern account of the scientific and romantic passions of the Curies, as well as the repercussions of their discoveries.” “A beautiful, heartbreaking work of art.” “Astounding creativity and beauty….a tender and haunting tribute to the scientists who fell in love while conducting research that led to their discovery of radium and polonium.” “One does not read the book, one enters into it-an experience somewhere between walking into a cutting-edge museum exhibition and seeing into the mind of an artist’s imaginings.” But most of the movie is a plodding recreation of historical events, with blunt expository dialogue and characters who exist to spout important facts. “Unforgettable…linguistically rich and visually captivating.” Radioactive is itself based on a graphic novel (by Lauren Redniss), and it features occasional creative visual flourishes that take it beyond its dramatization-of-Wikipedia feel. Radioactive draws on Rednisss original reporting in. “It is difficult to compare Radioactive to other works from any written or visual tradition, except perhaps another book of Redniss’s own.” In Radioactive, Lauren Redniss links these contentious questions to a love story in 19th Century Paris. “Stunningly beautiful… Radioactive is a rare cross-pollination of art and science, the kind of storytelling that makes us care about stories.”

“ continues to defy the usual categories.”

Radium produced a radioactive gas used to treat some forms of cancer and is also used in x-rays. Redniss’s text and her ambitious and spooky art.” She explores the life of the Poland-born, naturalized French citizen who pioneered and advanced the science of radioactivity and discovered the elements polonium and radium. ” is a deeply unusual and forceful thing to have in your hands…The electricity…derives from the friction between Ms.

Radioactive by Lauren Redniss