Today's guests are two young novelists who are redefining satire in the 21st century. Leigh Stein is the author of Self Care , which is set at a women's wellness startup where things go very wrong.

In Michael Dirda's review of George Stade's Sex and Violence: A Love Story (Book World, Oct. 9), the phrase "dark and deeper than any sea-dingle" should have been attributed to W.H. Auden, not ...

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 ...

Satire is a literary form that involves an expert balance of criticism and humor; it takes a very deft hand to write, as it needs to tick very specific boxes to be considered successful.

It’s a cynicism Australians tend to share, and in The Bannerman Shortlist, Colin Batrouney delves into a wide-ranging satire (with a mystery thrown in) that swirls around a new literary prize.

Sittenfeld proceeded to hone a genre you might call literary-with-a-hook. Her debut novel, “Prep,” a fish-out-of-water satire of prep school, was a runaway bestseller in 2005, setting her up ...

They also show up in today’s science fiction. Here are ten literary devices you’ve already seen in movies or on TV, perhaps without even realizing it. 1. Apostrophe.

‘American Fiction’: Jeffrey Wright ably takes the lead in timely satire of literary world In a richly layered performance, the actor plays a prof who writes an outlandish novel he thinks is a ...

In the 1990s, the U.K. was in thrall to Britpop, the retro-leaning movement that was a more melodic answer to the grunge that had taken hold in the U.S. Among the biggest bands of the scene, Oasis ...