A monument to courage …

… Andrew Hussey - Massacre of the Satirists | Literary Review | Issue 482, (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

It is to Lançon’s credit that there is very little about politics in the book. This is all the more impressive given that shortly after the Charlie Hebdo murders, sickening but inevitable hand-wringing began among many on the Left – those who saw Charlie Hebdo as an outdated and reactionary magazine that indulged in Muslim-baiting as part of a generalised Islamophobia in France. The implication was that Charlie Hebdo somehow ‘had it coming’.