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 ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract This article discusses irony, parody, and satire in the oral-literary tradition of Finnish working-class youth during the first decades of the ...

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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 ...

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Cree was scribbling aimlessly with her head down in an intentional posture that made it impossible to make eye contact with me. It was the third quarter of the school year and I was standing at the ...

The Croatian writer Dubravka Ugrešić, in an essay on the fickleness of the literary marketplace, discusses how she would dress up the classics of modern literature and submit them as book proposals to ...

In our digital times, as we are inundated with YouTube videos, memes and social media, satire is everywhere, but it can be ...

Reality TV and literary culture square off in Mark Haskell Smith’s latest novel “Raw.” Mark Haskell Smith will read from Raw and discuss the book with David Ulin tonight (Dec. 4) at Vroman’s in ...

Journal Editorial Report: The week's best and worst from Kim Strassel, Kyle Peterson and Mene Ukueberuwa. Image: Jakub Porzycki/Zuma Press High-school seniors are furiously feathering final flourishes ...