Crime and Caricature

By: Victor Navasky

Narrated by: Kevin Stillwell

As any kid who grew up in the 1930s and 1940s could tell you, reading comics was a guilty pleasure. “Why are you wasting your time reading these silly things?” our parents would ask. “You should be doing your homework." Fast-forward nearly a century to the tragedy of Charlie Hebdo and everything that has followed: the terrorist manhunt and the demonstration of solidarity in Paris that included 40 world leaders. It turns out that cartoons, caricature, satire - call it what you will - are not so trivial after all.©2015 Foreign Affairs (P)2015 Audible, Inc.