LEO BOIX, ANGUS REID and MARIA DUARTE review Night Stage, Two Women, Kim Novak’s Vertigo, and Fuze
Winnie the lampoon
MALC MCGOOKIN wallows in the artistry of gifted cartoonists given a fine target for caricature
(Right) Jim Berryman, Clement Attlee and Winston Churchill at the 1945 General Election
[Cover cartoon by David Low]
KATHRYN JOHNSON recommends the work of Norman Kaplan that was a tool in the struggle against apartheid in South Africa
GAVIN O’TOOLE welcomes a bold feminist subversion of classic folktales that are ubiquitous in the Irish imagination
A novel by Mexican Juan Pablo Villalobos, poetry by Mexican Ingrid Bringas, and a biography by Argentinian Mercedes Halfon
PAUL DONOVAN applauds an entertaining dramatisation of the famous dispute that gives insight into the struggle, and Murdoch’s unscrupulous mendacity
ELLIS RAE is disappointed by the revival of a nihilistic play that fails to offer alternatives for social change
Churchill: A Life In Cartoons
by Tim Benson, Hutchinson Heinemann, £16.99
HERE’s a dinner party ice breaker: Greatest Ever Briton? Discuss!
Apart from a couple of smart arse dinner guests, (“Mister Blobby!”, “Basil Brush!”) it would be mere seconds before “Winston Churchill’ was adamantly offered up.
Churchill, like Wellington, was a brand before advertisers even came up with the concept. Already in his mid 60s when he became prime minister, his energy and phlegmatic character came to define how Britons saw themselves – resolute, implacable, resilient in the face of adversity.
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