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 ...

Former journalist and Emmy-winning TV writer Cord Jefferson’s directorial debut “American Fiction” is a social satire that wields a scalpel, not a cleaving broadsword, as it surgically slices through ...

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 ...

Laura Rider knows that those who can’t do, teach. What else explains the community college dropout’s epiphany that she is destined to write a romance novel, despite the fact that she and her husband ...

Of all the things to enjoy in Jean Hanff Korelitz's new mystery novel The Plot, one of the best has to be one of the earliest, which is the encounter between Jacob Finch Bonner and his student Evan ...

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 ...

You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. Jorge Luis Borges wrote somewhere that Argentines allow for the possibility a novel might be great ...

At first blush, a program that rehabilitates Islamic State brides doesn’t appear to be rich territory for comedy. But in Fundamentally, a satirical novel about a United Nations deradicalization ...