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    Mightier Than the Sword

    Dec 01, 2021 4 minutes
    REVIEW BY JEROME CHARYN

    PROFUSELY ILLUSTRATED: A Memoir

    BY EDWARD SOREL

    Knopf, 227 pp., $30

    EDWARD SOREL’S manages to fuse art and autobiography with an unusual warmth and panache. Meant to be a “portfolio” of his best illustrations, cartoons, caricatures, and magazine covers, it also describes his “remarkably unremarkable life.” He tells us that “this book is essentially an attempt to save a few of my drawings from the oblivion that is the usual fate of ephemeral magazine art.” But Sorel is much too modest about his accomplishments. Over the past 60 years or so, he has given us some of the most original, biting, funny, and disturbing caricatures that anyone in this country has ever produced.

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