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The recent uproar over comedian Kunal Kamra's jokes about a prominent political leader in Maharashtra is yet another example of the shrinking space for free expression in India.
The first rule of satire in the U.S.: Do not offend By Mary McNamara Culture Critic Follow Jan. 16, 2015 11 AM PT ...
George Saunders's postmodern fiction serves as the exemplar for early twenty-first century American satire's new attention to affect, to empathy specifically, and the example afforded by his story ...
This article explores how Lucian's satire is conceptualized in the Lexiphanes through analysis of the presentation of Lexiphanes's illness and its diagnosis and cure. Lexiphanes is portrayed as ...
Satire, George S. Kaufman famously said, is what closes on Saturday night. Meaning, of course, that it has a limited run because of its intrinsically circumscribed interest. To this, one might add ...
Satire, caricature and parody are forms of art that rely on blurring the line between truth and outrageousness. Below are suggestions &#151 some taken from opinions in New Times v. Isaacks, decided in ...
In her blistering debut novel, British journalist Phoebe Greenwood satirizes foreign correspondents in Gaza, centering 'Vulture' on a clueless female reporter with daddy issues.
How satire is adapting to the second coming of Donald Trump The conservative Babylon Bee is finding it easier than the Onion ...