So, I am reading - a decade a day - the late great Tony Husband’s book The 20th Century in Cartoons” (to be clear, he selected them, he didn’t draw them.) See also The Onion’s Our Dumb Century. This decade, in my mind is one of…the American empire getting a bloody nose, stagflation etc. NB... Continue Reading →
Book Review: Make Russia Great Again by Christopher Buckley
The problem for satirists these days is to make their fiction as outlandish and unbelievable as reality. Tricky job. But "these days" is the hostage to fortune in this, because fifty years ago Philip Roth faced the same dilemma with Richard Nixon. And his brilliant "Our Gang" (no, seriously, you should read it) has some... Continue Reading →