MATTHEW HAWKINS applauds a psychotherapist’s disection of William Blake
The Shriek of Araby
TOMASZ PIERSCIONEK relishes a collection of cartoons that focus on Palestine from the period 1917 to 1948
Tampa Tribune, 3.12.1947
[George White] 
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
Drawn to the Promised Land: A cartoon history of Britain, Palestine and the Jews: 1917-1948
Tim Benson, Halban Publishers, £14.99
DRAWN TO THE PROMISED LAND is a compilation of over 200 cartoons focusing on events that shaped the region known as Palestine between the years of 1917 (Signing of the Balfour Declaration) and 1948 (Israel’s establishment as a state).
The political cartoons featured in the book are mostly taken from major British, American, or Australian publications and reflect the zeitgeist of the time as they detail dramatic, pivotal or harrowing events taking place in the three decades prior to 1948. We are also treated to the illustrations of famous Soviet cartoonist Boris Efimov as well as those of the Daily Worker’s very own Jimmy Friell (Gabriel).
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