Carrying the torch

Lucy Ellman
Alamy/Matt Crossick

Some of the objects of Lucy Ellman's scorn are rather predictable: Donald Trump, for example, is taken apart at length. But her style is so original that even those targets feel freshly eviscerated, and her consistent attention to the plight of women unites the volume.

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