ANGUS REID, ANDY HEDGECOCK and MARIA DUARTE review On The Sea, A Useful Ghost, Brunello: The Gracious Visionary, and Pinocchio Unstrung
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Women conspicuous by their absence in political cartoon collection
RON JACOBS enjoys a great tale, told by a US communist, of the lives of working-class New Yorkers
BRENT CUTLER searches a new history of contemporary Iran for an understanding of the Islamic Republic, finding both interesting detail and glaring omissions
MARIA DUARTE recommends the true story of the remarkable woman who sued Donald Trump for sexual assault not once, but twice
KENNY MacASKILL is disappointed by a polemical, rather than factual, account of the Lone Star State and its political path since the civil war
PAUL DONOVAN is fascinated by the lives of Charles and Mary Bagot, and the insight this biography shines on the morals of pre-Victorian society
GORDON PARSONS appreciates fine performances and a feel for ambiguity, but misses the music of the dialogue
Britain’s Best Political Cartoons 2017
Edited by Tim Benson
(Random House Books, £12.99)
IN AN introduction lamenting the absence of women editorial cartoonists in the national press, Tim Benson offers the Morning Star a backhanded compliment as the “only daily newspaper that draws on the work of female political cartoonists.”
But he can’t resist the gratuitous barb that they work “unpaid” which indeed they, along with the paper’s many volunteers, do.
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