David Scher: Hail, Cretin!Paperback, 24 January 2017

The second volume in Cabinet's 24-Hour Book series, New York-based artist David Scher's Hail, Cretin! features the melancholy peregrinations of a demicenturion missing his upper half. This protagonist--a lonely, postimperial half-man who seems fated to permanent homelessness--experiences the landscape as if for the first time.