MATTHEW HAWKINS applauds a psychotherapist’s disection of William Blake
The art of deflating the hypocritical creed
New releases from Christina Alden and Alex Patterson, Odette Michell, Clementine Lovell
JOHN GREEN is fascinated by a very readable account of Britain’s involvement in South America
Strip cartoons used to be the bread and butter of newspapers and they have been around for centuries. MICHAL BONCZA asks our own Paul Tanner about which bees are in his bonnet
GORDON PARSONS acknowledges the authority with which Sarah Kane’s theatrical justification for suicide has resonance today
RON JACOBS welcomes a timely homage to one of the IWW and CPUSA’s most effective orators
The Happiness Manifesto
Martin Rowson
Rotland Press £8.07
THANK GOD — if there is one — that we can laugh. Martin Rowson, whose cartoons are well known to Morning Star readers, believes that we use laughter as a survival tool. If we didn’t laugh, we would go mad facing the grotesqueries of our world.
It is appropriate that the publishers of The Happiness Manifesto, Rotland Press of Detroit, specialise in works of “mordant amusement and exuberant despair.”
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