Author Steve Israel argues that recent actions by Donald Trump, including White House renovations and rhetoric regarding the ...

Did postmodernism kill literary satire? I’ve been wondering about this in the wake of the terror attacks on the French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo, known for ...

What Edward St Aubyn has done is tougher than that: he has written a contemporary satire about a literary prize that touches on universal problems of culture and value. It is a work whose cleverness ...

Satire is a powerful force for political and cultural change. But is it even possible in a world that outstrips our imagination on a daily—or even hourly—basis? Reason's Nick Gillespie talks with them ...

A decade ago, Cord Jefferson was one of the most captivating writers at Gawker, the then-flourishing news and gossip blog. In 2014, during the early Black Lives Matter movement, he wrote an essay ...

For literary translators, nothing is more challenging and yet perhaps more inspiring than texts shaped by humor, as they require a double translation: a linguistic as well as a cultural one. Global ...

Thank heavens for the VHS junkie, the VCR jockey, and the other nonprofessional, copyright-flouting cultural archivists preserving the not-so-recent, videotaped past on the internet. In the highly ...

More than a million people — including a camera-friendly rack of world leaders — took to the streets of Paris last weekend to march in support of free expression in the wake of the killing of ...

LUCKNOW Renowned writer and poet Ashok Chakradhar took centre stage at the National Book Fair in Lucknow on Thursday as a Nukatchini program was organised by the Uttar Pradesh Vyang Sabha, a branch ...