MATTHEW HAWKINS applauds a psychotherapist’s disection of William Blake
Rosen on genocide
ANDY HEDGECOCK welcomes an explanation of genocide by the persecuted author that is both uplifting and important
[Illustration by Benjamin Philips] 
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
One Day
Michael Rosen & Benjamin Phillips, Walker Studio, £12.99
ARTISTS brave enough to criticise Israel’s catastrophic treatment of the Palestinian people risk a double whammy. Not only do the inevitable allegations of anti-semitism trigger calls for a boycott, but attention shifts from the cultural product to the manufactured scandal.
Consider the cases of musician Roger Waters, film-maker Ken Loach and writer-actor Miriam Margolyes. Then, of course, there’s the children’s writer and poet Michael Rosen.
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ANDY HEDGECOCK recommends two collections of short stories that use a single location to connect the narratives, and explore the limits of our ability to understand the world
FIONA O’CONNOR detects contemporary relevance in the depiction of a society heading into the abyss while the world does nothing
FIONA O’CONNOR examines a new book by Labour’s media-savvy MP and new Under-Secretary of State for Safeguarding and Violence Against Women and Girls