Black American novelists, filmmakers and other writers are using comedy to reveal — and combat — our era’s disturbing ...

Yet you smile. Similarly, when you read a satirical novel, a poem, or if you look at a painting that lampoons your object of love, you feel bad about it. But they evoke chortles, too. A piece of ...

This satirical travel narrative is considered by many to be a significant precursor of the modern science fiction novel. Jonathan Swift’s provocative and controversial novel is infused with ...

Those are just three headlines from maybe millions to choose from that at one point or another have graced the front page of the satirical news outlet, The Onion, America's finest news source, as it ...

This week, medicine dominated non-fiction reviews, while novels explored wealth and class in England and the complications of love. Natasha Brown’s Universality (Faber) “confirms her ...